Histories of Bureaucratic Knowledge

Sovereignty

2020 Special Issue

Edited by Sebastian Felten and Christine von Oertzen

Collection Articles

Bureaucracy as Knowledge

Sebastian Felten, Christine von Oertzen

Chosŏn’s Office of Interpreters: The Apt Response and the Knowledge Culture of Diplomacy

Sixiang Wang

Making Public Knowledge — Making Knowledge PublicThe Territorial, Reparative, Heretical, and Canonization Inquiries of Gui Foucois (ca. 1200–1268)

John Sabapathy

In Pursuit of “Useful” Knowledge: Documenting Technical Innovation in Sixteenth-Century Potosí

Renée Raphael

Caveat from the Archive: Pieter van Dam’s Beschryvinge van de Oostindische Compagnie and Crisis Management

Susanne Friedrich

The Bureaucratic Sense of the Forthcoming in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul

Harun Küçük

Sustainable Gains: Dutch Investment and Bureaucratic Rationality in Eighteenth-Century Saxon Mines

Sebastian Felten

A Crisis of Competence: Information, Corruption, and Knowledge about the Decline of the Qing State

Maura Dykstra

The Indaganda Survey of the Prussian FrontierThe Built World, Logistical Power, and Bureaucratic Knowledge in the Polish Partitions, 1772–1806

Kathryn M. Olesko

Shells and Order: Questionnaires on Indigenous Law in German New Guinea

Anna Echterhölter

Revenge of the Humdrum: Bureaucracy as Profession and as a Site of Science

Theodore Porter