ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resources in Central Europe, 1550-1850
Early modern mining often played out as a drama in three acts: I. Ores are Discovered, II. Communities Flourish, III. The Mines Collapse. Across Central Europe, however, this drama took an unusual turn: emerging territorial states stepped in to reorganise the sector and suspended the collapse of mining for years, decades, and centuries. Understanding why and how state-employed administrators prolonged the lifespan of mines has great potential to advance debates in economic history, history of science and technology, and environmental history. The principal aim of this project is to open up the history of resource management as a field of study whose questions and results are equally well…
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