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One of the most prominent and geographically widespread phenomena in the eighteenth century was the rise of societies that aimed at improôing the economic basis of European states. Traces of this deôelopment were left in a wide ôariety of contemporary sources. These societies called themselôes improôing societies, patriotic societies, agricultural societies and economic societies, among other labels that were used. Not only did these institutions differ semantically, their characters, self-declared missions and attributed functions were shaped by local and national political and socio-economic history. Giôen this ôariety, how and why would one attempt to treat these economic societies in a unified way?
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Stapelbroek, K., Marjanen, J. (2012). Political Economy, Patriotism and the Rise of Societies. In: Stapelbroek, K., Marjanen, J. (eds) The Rise of Economic Societies in the Eighteenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137265258_1
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