Format:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781501707902
Content:
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.
Content:
KNOWLEDGE AND THE ENDS OF EMPIRE -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- 1. Seeing Like a Half-Blind State: Getting to Know the Central Eurasian Steppe, 1731-1840s -- 2. Information Revolution and Administrative Reform, ca. 1845-1868 -- 3. An Imperial Biography: Ibrai Altynsarin as Ethnographer and Educator, 1841-1889 -- 4. The Key to the World's Treasures: "Russian Science," Local Knowledge, and the Civilizing Mission on the Siberian Steppe -- 5. Norming the Steppe: Statistical Knowledge and Tsarist Resettlement, 1896-1917 -- 6. A Double Failure: Epistemology and the Crisis of a Settler Colonial Empire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501700798
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781501700798
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=4835159
