Journal for the History of Knowledge, Vol. 1, NºI, 2020

We are thrilled to announce that the first Special Issue of the Journal for the History of Knowledge has been published. “Histories of Bureaucratic Knowledge,” with guest editors Sebastian Felten and Christine von Oertzen, greatly exemplifies many of the journal's aims. It addresses knowledges beyond science as well as a large geographical and temporal scope. We hope you will enjoy it as much as we do. You can find the Open Access link here: https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/collections/special/histories-of-bureaucratic-knowledge/.

We believe the Special Issue's theme will be of interest to a wide range of historians of knowledge, and beyond.

Special Issue "Histories of Bureaucratic Knowledge"

Sebastian Felten, Christine von Oertzen, 'Bureaucracy as Knowledge.'
1 (1):8 (https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/10.5334/jhk.18/)

Sixiang Wang, 'Chosŏn’s Office of Interpreters: The Apt Response and the Knowledge Culture of Diplomacy.'
1 (1):9 (https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/10.5334/jhk.17/)

John Sabapathy, 'Making Public Knowledge—Making Knowledge Public: The Territorial, Reparative, Heretical, and Canonization Inquiries of Gui Foucois (ca. 1200–1268).'
1 (1):10 (https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/10.5334/jhk.23/)

Renée Raphael, 'In Pursuit of “Useful” Knowledge: Documenting Technical Innovation in Sixteenth-Century Potosí.'
1 (1):11 (https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/10.5334/jhk.16/)

Susanne Friedrich, 'Caveat from the Archive: Pieter van Dam’s Beschryvinge van de Oostindische Compagnie and Crisis Management.'
1 (1):12 (https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/10.5334/jhk.15/)

Harun Küçük, 'The Bureaucratic Sense of the Forthcoming in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul.'
1 (1):13 (https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/10.5334/jhk.22/)

Sebastian Felten, 'Sustainable Gains: Dutch Investment and Bureaucratic Rationality in Eighteenth-Century Saxon Mines.'
1 (1):14 (https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/10.5334/jhk.19/)

Maura Dykstra, 'A Crisis of Competence: Information, Corruption, and Knowledge about the Decline of the Qing State.'
1 (1):15 (https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/10.5334/jhk.11/)

Kathryn M. Olesko, 'The Indaganda Survey of the Prussian Frontier: The Built World, Logistical Power, and Bureaucratic Knowledge in the Polish Partitions, 1772–1806.0
1 (1):16 (https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/10.5334/jhk.12/)

Anna Echterhölter, 'Shells and Order: Questionnaires on Indigenous Law in German New Guinea.'
1 (1):17 (https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/10.5334/jhk.21/)

Theodore Porter, 'Revenge of the Humdrum: Bureaucracy as Profession and as a Site of Science.'
1 (1):18 (https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/10.5334/jhk.20/)