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Knowledge and the ends of empire : Kazak intermediaries and Russian rule on the steppe, 1731-1917 / Ian W. Campbell.
LIBRA DK908.85 .C36 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Ian W., 1984- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relations.
- Kazakhstan--History.
- Kazakhstan.
- History.
- Kazakhstan--Relations--Russia.
- Russia--Relations--Kazakhstan.
- Russia.
- Russia--History--1689-1801.
- Russia--History--1801-1917.
- International relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 273 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
- 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
- Conclusion : transitional states : knowledge and the transformation of the steppe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Campbell, Ian W., 1984- author. Knowledge and the ends of empire.
- ISBN:
- 9781501700798
- 1501700790
- OCLC:
- 956947781
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