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This collection of essays explores the emergence of economic societies in the British Isles and their development into a European, American and global reform movement in the eighteenth century. Its fourteen contributions demonstrate the intellectual horizons and international networks of this widespread and influential phenomenon.

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Political Economy, Patriotism and the Rise of Societies; K.Stapelbroek & J.Marjanen Agrarian Patriotism and the Landed Interest: The Scottish ´Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture´, 1723-1746; B.Bonnyman A Kingdom of Cosmopolitan Improvers: The Dublin Society, 1731-1798 72; J.Livesey The Society of Brittany and the Irish Economic Model: International Competition and the Politics of Provincial Development; J.Shovlin The Georgofili of Florence, 1753-1783: From ´perfect anarchy´ to Royal Academy; V.Becagli Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and Political Economy in the Accademia dei pugni in Austrian Lombardy, 1760-1780; S.A.Reinert Paternalism and Agricultural Reform: The Economic Society of Bern in the Eighteenth-Century; R.Wyss & M.Stuber Economic Societies in Germany, 1760-1820: Organisation, Social Structures and Fields of Activities; H.E.Bodeker Patriotic Societies and Royal Imperial Reforms in Denmark, 1761-1814 279; J.Engelhardt Patriotism, Agronomy, and the Peasant Question: The Free Economic Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia; C.Leckey The Haarlem 1771 Prize Essay on the Restoration of Dutch Trade and the Economic Branch of the Holland Society of Sciences; K.Stapelbroek Between Mainstay and Internal Colony: Zeeland and the Decline of the Dutch Republic, 1750-1800; A.Neele Between ´Public´ and ´Private Economy´: The Finnish Economic Society and the Decline of Economic Patriotism, 1797-1833; J.Marjanen The American Agricultural Societies and the Making of the New Republic, 1785-1830; M.Albertone

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MANUELA ALBERTONE Professor of Modern History at the University of Turin, Italy VIERI BECAGLI former Professor at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Florence, Italy HANS ERICH BÖDEKER Emeritus Senior Research Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany BRIAN BONNYMAN Honorary Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies, UK JULIANE ENGELHARDT Assistant Professor at the Saxo-Institute of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark COLUM LECKEY Lecturer at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, VA, USA JAMES LIVESEY Professor of History at the University of Sussex, UK ARNO NEELE PhD from the Research Institute for History and Culture of the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands SOPHUS A. REINERT is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School, USA JOHN SHOVLIN Associate Professor of history at New York University, USA MARTIN STUBER Research Coordinator of the Institute of History at the University of Bern, Switzerland REGULA WYSS PhD from the Institute of History of the University of Bern, Switzerland

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