LEADER 04251nam 2200601 450 001 9910821833703321 005 20230809223458.0 010 $a9781501707902 (ebook) 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501707902 035 $a(CKB)3710000001134544 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4835159 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001721079 035 $a(OCoLC)957057046 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse57126 035 $a(DLC) 2016038404 035 $a(DE-B1597)483641 035 $a(OCoLC)992508154 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501707902 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4835159 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11382416 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL1004432 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001134544 100 $a20170525h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aKnowledge and the ends of empire $eKazak intermediaries and Russian rule on the steppe, 1731/1917 /$fIan W. Campbell 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2017. 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (273 pages) $cillustrations, maps, photographs 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 1 $a9781501700798 (hardback) 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tA Note to the Reader --$t1. Introduction --$t2. Information Revolution and Administrative Reform, ca. 1845-1868 --$t3. An Imperial Biography: Ibrai Altynsarin as Ethnographer and Educator, 1841-1889 --$t4. The Key to the World's Treasures: "Russian Science," Local Knowledge, and the Civilizing Mission on the Siberian Steppe --$t5. Norming the Steppe: Statistical Knowledge and Tsarist Resettlement, 1896-1917 --$t6. A Double Failure: Epistemology and the Crisis of a Settler Colonial Empire --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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 environment and population. This thirst for knowledge created opportunities for Kazak intermediaries to represent themselves and their landscape to the tsarist state. Because tsarist officials were uncertain of what the steppe was, and disagreed on what could be made of it, Kazaks were able to be part of these debates, at times influencing the policies that were pursued.Drawing on archival materials from Russia and Kazakhstan and a wide range of nineteenth-century periodicals in Russian and Kazak, Campbell tells a story that highlights the contingencies of and opportunities for cooperation with imperial rule. Kazak intermediaries were at first able to put forward their own idiosyncratic views on whether the steppe was to be Muslim or secular, whether it should be a center of stock-raising or of agriculture, and the extent to which local institutions needed to give way to imperial institutions. It was when the tsarist state was most confident in its knowledge of the steppe that it committed its gravest errors by alienating Kazak intermediaries and placing unbearable stresses on pastoral nomads. From the 1890s on, when the dominant visions in St. Petersburg were of large-scale peasant colonization of the steppe and its transformation into a hearth of sedentary agriculture, the same local knowledge that Kazaks had used to negotiate tsarist rule was transformed into a language of resistance. 606 $aHISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union$2bisacsh 607 $aKazakhstan$xHistory 607 $aKazakhstan$xRelations$zRussia 607 $aRussia$xRelations$zKazakhstan 607 $aRussia$xHistory$y1689-1801 607 $aRussia$xHistory$y1801-1917 615 7$aHISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. 676 $a958.45/07 700 $aCampbell$b Ian W.$f1984-$01698083 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821833703321 996 $aKnowledge and the ends of empire$94079294 997 $aUNINA