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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Tags IX
4. List of Figures XIII
5. List of Tables XV
6. Introduction: Taking Stock 1
7. I Inventorying Techniques and Practices
8. 1 Bookkeeping: Form and Metaphor 19
9. 2 Taxing Nature and Culture: Juridical Inventory Practices in Nineteenth- Century Collections 25
10. 3 The Ordering of Technological Objects, circa 1800 31
11. 4 Card Counting: The Census 39
12. 5 Account Book Factories: Standardizing Blanks 49
13. II Inventories as Tools of Knowledge
14. 6 Vasculum (Botanisiertrommel) 61
15. 7 Naturgemälde: Alexander von Humboldt’s Media Inventories 71
16. 8 Four Types of Homeopathic Inventorying 81
17. 9 Ernst Mach’s Inventory Numbers 89
18. 10 An Inventory of Feeling: Ferdinand Karsch and the Matter of Frustration in Early Sexological Writing 95
19. III Inventorying the World
20. 11 Inventorying the World: Johann Friedrich Cotta’s Das Ausland 107
21. 12 News Agencies: Instruments of Aggregation in a Disaggregating World 117
22. 13 “Awakened from Kyffhäuser’s slumbers”: German Colonialism’s Invention of Tradition in the Gartenlaube by Means of Inventio, Inventory, and Display 125
23. 14 Silkworms and Labor as “Common Stock” 137
24. IV Making Museums, Managing Estates
25. 15 Ludwig Völkel’s Sababurg List: An Inventory of the Public Museum of Art 151
26. 16 Putting a Price on Nature: Specimen Inventories at the Berlin Zoological Museum 161
27. 17 Schinkel’s Lists: An Effort to Put Architecture in Order 173
28. 18 Intellectual Inventories: The Goethean Nachlass 183
29. V Books, Manuscripts, and their Margins
30. 19 Karl August Böttiger’s Book Fair Catalogs 197
31. 20 Promptbooks as Inventories of Theatrical Performance and for Cultural History 207
32. 21 The Manuscript Catalog 217
33. 22 Gottfried Keller Doodles on a Protokoll 227
34. VI Literary Inventories
35. 23 Ludwig Börne’s Incomplete Index of Typographical Errors 237
36. 24 “Neuer Frühling”: Heine’s Poetic Inventory of Romantic Tropes 247
37. 25 Inventorying the Audible Past: German-Language Recitation Anthologies in the Nineteenth Century 255
38. 26 Bertha von Suttner’s Inventarium einer Seele and the Business of Inventorying Experience Afterword(s) 269
39. Afterword(s) 277
40. Acknowledgements 283
41. List of Contributors 285
42. Bibliography 287
43. Index 305