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Knowledge and the Ends of Empire - Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917 (Hardcover)
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Knowledge and the Ends of Empire - Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917 (Hardcover)
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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 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.
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