Sustainable Gains: Dutch Investment and Bureaucratic Rationality in Eighteenth-Century Saxon Mines
A late-eighteenth-century encounter between Dutch merchants and cameralist Saxon officials is used to argue two related points. First, the history of knowledge can help us rethink hierarchical power structures like the Saxon mining bureaucracy. Mine owners had a right to information and could not be...
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| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Journal for the History of Knowledge |
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| Online Access: | https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/19 |