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The Indaganda Survey of the Prussian Frontier: The Built World, Logistical Power, and Bureaucratic Knowledge in the Polish Partitions, 1772–1806 (2020)

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The Indaganda is an obscure but widely used survey designed by Prussian administrators to gather territorial information, especially about provinces acquired in the Polish Partitions (1772–1795). This essay uses the Indaganda of South Prussia—a highly urbanized province annexed in the Second Partition—as a nodal point in Prussia’s efforts to manage and control territory by using material means to transform the natural and built worlds. Prussian patterns of eighteenth-century infrastructure development were filtered through this survey, eliciting information that formed a knowledge base for bureaucratic administration, infrastructure development, and cartographic visualizations. The Indaganda and its implications for the built world were expressions of the state’s exercise of logistical power: the use of material means to insert its presence into daily life, to assert its prerogative to control things and people, and to express its right to govern both. Finally, this essay argues that the bureaucratic curation of technical knowledge, which operationalized logistics, facilitated the integration of technical experts into the Prussian state bureaucracy.   This article is part of a special issue entitled “Histories of Bureaucratic Knowledge,” edited by Sebastian Felten and Christine von Oertzen.

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Authors & Contributors
Rickenbacher, Martin
Valerio Baiocchi
Natalia Víctorovna Platónova
Gábor Molnár
Gábor Timár
Csilla Galambos
Concepts
Cartography
Surveys
Maps; atlases
Geography
Great Britain, colonies
Science and politics
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
Prussia (Germany)
Poland
Great Britain
United States
Switzerland
Russia
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
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