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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. About the Cover Image V
3. Preface VII
4. Contents IX
5. State-Related Knowledge: Conceptual Reflections on the Rise of the Modern State 1
6. Part I: Defining the Fields of the State
7. State and Civil Society in the Diffusion of Agricultural Knowledge in Sweden and Finland, 1739–1830 21
8. Transfer of Knowledge, the State, and Economy in the Cuban Coal Question (Nineteenth Century) 34
9. Patronage and Expertise: The Creation of Trans-Imperial Knowledge, 1719–1848 48
10. Part II: Circulating State-Related Knowledge
11. ‘Intelligencers’ (advertisement sheets) as Media of State-Related Knowledge? 65
12. The Société des Observateurs de l’homme (1799–1804) and the Circulation of State-Related Knowledge under Napoléon 88
13. Describing the World and Shaping the Self: Knowledge-Gathering, Mobility and Spatial Control at the Swedish Bureau of Mines 107
14. Lost in Imperial Translation? Circulating Mining Knowledge between Europe and Latin America around 1800 129
15. Part III: Negotiating Scales and Spaces of the State
16. Territorialisation and Logistics of Knowledge and Learning: The Case of Mineral Resource Surveys in France in the Eighteenth Century 149
17. “Political-Economic Principles” and Local Interests of Reception: Peripheral Authorisation of Knowledge in the Agrarian Policy of the Electoral Palatinate (ca. 1750–1800) 166
18. Territorialising Atlantic Knowledge: The French State Tobacco Monopoly and the Globalisation of the Havana Cigar around the Mid-Nineteenth Century 181
19. Index of Persons 197