Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Ian W. Campbell is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Davis.

Reviews

"In Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, Ian W. Campbell addresses an especially important population and part of Russia's empire in the East. He has identified an interesting lens with which to examine imperial rule-one that extends considerably beyond this particular time and place. He writes with a fine combination of authority and flair that makes this book readable and engaging."-Paul W. Werth, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, author of At the Margins of Orthodoxy: Mission, Governance, and Confessional Politics in Russia's Volga-Kama Region, 1827-1905 "I read Knowledge and the Ends of Empire with great interest and enjoyment; it is well-written and solidly researched, with original and intelligent arguments. One of Campbell's greatest strengths is his deep and knowledgeable engagement with kindred historiographies of European imperialism in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. He makes a convincing argument that the Kazakh steppe was conquered without any very clear idea as to what was to be done with it afterward. For the next forty years, the only common ground between Russian officials and the Kazakh intermediaries on whom they often relied was that the status quo was not an option."-Alexander Morrison, Nazarbayev University, author of Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910: A Comparison with British India