Knowledge and the ends of empire : Kazak intermediaries and Russian rule on the steppe, 1731-1917 / Ian W. Campbell.

Author
Campbell, Ian W., 1984- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
xiii, 273 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Details

Subject(s)
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-262) and index.
Contents
  • Seeing like a half-blind state : getting to know the central Eurasian steppe, 1731-1840s
  • Information revolution and administrative reform, ca. 1845-1868
  • An imperial biography : Ibrai Altynsarin as ethnographer and educator, 1841-1889
  • The key to the world's treasures : "Russian science," local knowledge, and the civilizing mission on the Siberian steppe
  • Norming the steppe : statistical knowledge and tsarist resettlement, 1896-1917
  • A double failure : epistemology and the crisis of a settler colonial empire.
ISBN
  • 9781501700798 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
  • 1501700790 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016037425
OCLC
956947781
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