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Introduction: Reform And Improvement In Early Modern Europe / Adriana Luna-fabritius, Ere Nokkala, Marten Seppel, Keith Tribe -- Reform: Elements For A Conceptual History / Keith Tribe -- The Evolution Of The Concept Verbesserung And The Anonymous German Discourse Of Improvement / Marten Seppel -- Changes To Preserve Everything The Way It Always Was: The Idea Of Reform And The Slow Disintegration Of The Old Regime / Alexandre Mendes-cunha -- Changes Are Harmful To The State: The Concept Of Reform In Russian Political Thought, 1700-1790 / Sergey Polskoy -- Reform And Utopia In Early-modern Italian Political Economy: Historicising A Tension / Adriana Luna-fabritius -- Projects For The Improvement Of Constitutional Order: Late Cameralists As Advocates Of Political Change / Ere Nokkala -- Joseph Von Sonnenfels And The Political Codex (1763-1817) / Ivo Cerman -- The Translation, Adaptation And Mediation Of Cameralist Texts In Austrian-habsburg Lombardy's Age Of Reform / Alexandra Ortolja-baird -- How Undiplomatic Memoirs Shaped Enlightenment Reform: Melchor Rafael Macanaz's Memorias & Contexts Of Change In Bourbon Spain / Edward Jones-corredera -- Making And Trading Metals: A Narrative Of Swedish Improvement / Måns Jansson & Göran Rydén -- National Economics In Sweden: Reform And The Political Economy Of Industrial Progress 1800-1850 / Lars Magnusson -- Epilogue / Kari Saastamoinen. Edited By Adriana Luna-fabritius, Ere Nokkala, Marten Seppel And Keith Tribe. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mi Available Via World Wide Web.