Languages of Reform in the Eighteenth Century

Susan Richter is Full Professor of Early Modern History at Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel.Thomas Maissen is Professor of Early Modern History at Heidelberg University.Manuela Albertone is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Turin.

• Introduction: Languages of Reform and the European Enlightenment Section I: Semantics of Languages of Reform 1. The Concept of Reform in Polyglot European Enlightenment 2. The Dawning of the Age of Reform: Epistemic and Semantic Shifts in Georgian Britain 3. The Making of "Federalism" in Eighteenth-Century France: Between Reform and Revolution 4. Ambiguity in Translation: Communicating Economic Reform in the Multilingual Republic of Berne Section II: Strategies and Rhetoric of Reform 5. Change and Improvement to Save the State: Administrative Reforms in Maria Theresian Austria 6. Reform as Verbesserung: Argumentative Patterns and the Role of Models in German Cameralism 7. Luxury as an Eighteenth-Century Language of Reform of Society Between France and Italy: Jean-François Melon, Antonio Genovesi and Georges-Marie Butel-Dumont 8. A Useful Public Institution?: Languages of University Reform in the German Territories, 1750–1800 Section III: Thematic Vocabularies in Specific Contexts 9. A Kind of Sovereignty?: Legitimising Freedom of Contract in the 18th Century 10. From Economic Reform to Political Revolution: The Language of Dutch Patriotism 11. Mending the Boat While Sailing: Languages of Linguistic Reform in the German Territories, c. 1750–1815 12. From a Reform-Language of Speculation to a Speculative Language of Reform: Liberalising Trade in Mid-18th-Century France 13. From the Civic Improvement of the Jews to the Separation of State and Church: Languages of Political Reform in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1781-1799 Section IV: Adaption and Translation of Reform Languages 14. The Difficult Reform of Military Discipline in the Latter Half of Eighteenth-Century France 15. Writing on "The New Order": Ottoman Approaches to Late Eighteenth-Century Reforms Section V: Reflecting on Reform 16. Reform, Revolution, and the Republican Tradition: The Case of the Batavian Republic 17. Words and Things: The Language of Reform in Wilhelm Traugott Krug and Karl Ludwig von Haller. Conclusion: Bringing a Despotic Agenda into the Public Sphere — Concluding Remarks on Languages of Reform