Knowledge and the Ends of Empire : Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917 /

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In Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Hoping to better govern the region, tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about an unfamiliar envi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Campbell, Ian W., 1984- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
International relations.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
HISTORY > Asia > Central Asia.
Russia.
Kazakhstan.
Russie > Histoire > 1801-1917.
Russie > Histoire > 1689-1801.
Kazakhstan > Histoire.
Russia > History > 1801-1917.
Russia > History > 1689-1801.
Russia > Relations > Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan > Relations > Russia.
Kazakhstan > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Conclusion : transitional states : knowledge and the transformation of the steppe.

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