Taking Stock : Media Inventories in the German Nineteenth Century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franzel, Sean B.

Contributor:

Iurascu, Ilinca.

McGillen, Petra S.

Series:

Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History Series

Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History Series ; v.18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inventories.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.

Summary:

This book, 'Taking Stock: Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History,' edited by Markus Friedrich, Vera Keller, and Christine von Oertzen, explores various techniques and practices of inventorying knowledge throughout history, with a focus on the 19th century in Germany. It examines topics such as bookkeeping, juridical inventory practices, technological object ordering, and the role of inventories in museums and estates. The book also delves into the use of inventories in literary, scientific, and cultural contexts, highlighting their impact on knowledge production and dissemination. The contributors analyze how inventories have been used as tools for understanding, organizing, and managing information across different domains. This scholarly work is intended for historians, researchers, and students interested in the historical development of knowledge practices. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Contents

List of Tags

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction: Taking Stock

I Inventorying Techniques and Practices

1 Bookkeeping: Form and Metaphor

2 Taxing Nature and Culture: Juridical Inventory Practices in Nineteenth- Century Collections

3 The Ordering of Technological Objects, circa 1800

4 Card Counting: The Census

5 Account Book Factories: Standardizing Blanks

II Inventories as Tools of Knowledge

6 Vasculum (Botanisiertrommel)

7 Naturgemälde: Alexander von Humboldt’s Media Inventories

8 Four Types of Homeopathic Inventorying

9 Ernst Mach’s Inventory Numbers

10 An Inventory of Feeling: Ferdinand Karsch and the Matter of Frustration in Early Sexological Writing

III Inventorying the World

11 Inventorying the World: Johann Friedrich Cotta’s Das Ausland

12 News Agencies: Instruments of Aggregation in a Disaggregating World

13 “Awakened from Kyffhäuser’s slumbers”: German Colonialism’s Invention of Tradition in the Gartenlaube by Means of Inventio, Inventory, and Display

14 Silkworms and Labor as “Common Stock”

IV Making Museums, Managing Estates

15 Ludwig Völkel’s Sababurg List: An Inventory of the Public Museum of Art

16 Putting a Price on Nature: Specimen Inventories at the Berlin Zoological Museum

17 Schinkel’s Lists: An Effort to Put Architecture in Order

18 Intellectual Inventories: The Goethean Nachlass

V Books, Manuscripts, and their Margins

19 Karl August Böttiger’s Book Fair Catalogs

20 Promptbooks as Inventories of Theatrical Performance and for Cultural History Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9783111060675

3111060675

OCLC:

1467880525