Another Grand Tour: Cameralism and Antiphysiocracy in Baden, Tuscany, and Denmark–Norway

Sophus A. Reinert ()
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Sophus A. Reinert: Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge

Chapter Chapter 4 in Physiocracy, Antiphysiocracy and Pfeiffer, 2011, pp 39-69 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract During the summer of 1784, the Danish statesman Peter Christian Schumacher (1743–1817) decided to go on a Grand Tour. It would not be his first such tour, but whereas he before had ventured out to learn “languages, politics, and statistics,” he now wished to study the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. In terms of current scholarship on the Grand Tour, Schumacher’s general sentiment is less surprising than his proposed itinerary. For rather than heading for Paris, Bordeaux, London, or Birmingham, along the principal arteries of the European economy, he resolutely went south, across Germany, Switzerland, and northern Italy, making purposeful stops in the reformist states of Baden, Venice, and Tuscany. The current Anglophone narrative of the Grand Tour privileges British and French travelers questing for Arcadia in Italy and continental observers spying on British technological achievements. The ways in which travel contributed to the emulation of economic and administrative practices between the minor states of Northern, Central, and Southern Europe are therefore seldom explored.

Keywords: Eighteenth Century; Great Power; Small State; Early Modern Period; Rhine Basin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7497-6_4

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