Journal for the History of Knowledge Publishes Special Issue: "Histories of Bureaucratic Knowledge" @jhokjournal

The Journal for the History of Knowledge has published its Special Issue, "Histories of Bureaucratic Knowledge," edited by Sebastian Felten and Christine von Oertzen. Here is a link to the Special Issue.

Contributions: Sixiang Wang, Chosŏn’s Office of Interpreters: The Apt Response and the Knowledge Culture of Diplomacy John Sabapathy, Making Public Knowledge—Making Knowledge Public: The Territorial, Reparative, Heretical, and Canonization Inquiries of Gui Foucois (ca. 1200–1268) Susanne Friedrich, Caveat from the Archive: Pieter van Dam’s Beschryvinge van de Oostindische Compagnie and Crisis Management Harun Küçük, The Bureaucratic Sense of the Forthcoming in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul Sebastian Felten, Sustainable Gains: Dutch Investment and Bureaucratic Rationality in Eighteenth-Century Saxon Mines Maura Dykstra, A Crisis of Competence: Information, Corruption, and Knowledge about the Decline of the Qing State Kathryn M. Olesko, The Indaganda Survey of the Prussian Frontier: The Built World, Logistical Power, and Bureaucratic Knowledge in the Polish Partitions, 1772–1806 Anna Echterhölter, Shells and Order: Questionnaires on Indigenous Law in German New Guinea Theodore Porter, Revenge of the Humdrum: Bureaucracy as Profession and as a Site of Science.

The Journal for the History of Knowledge is an open access, peer-reviewed journal.