Knowledge and the Ends of Empire - Couverture rigide

Campbell, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1644698013 ISBN 13 : 9781644698013

Editeur : Academic Studies Press, 2022

Synopsis

This book investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about the unfamiliar environment and population of the steppe. This thirst for knowledge created opportunities for Kazak intermediaries to represent themselves and their environment 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. By the early 20 th century, though, the tsarist state's pursuit of a policy of mass peasant colonization of the steppe region closed this space for debate. The same local knowledge that Kazak intermediaries had used to negotiate tsarist rule became, with this, a language of resistance.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ian Campbell is Associate Professor of History at the University of California-Davis, specializing in the history of Russia's imperial borderlands.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Academic Studies Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: russe
• ISBN 10: 1644698013
• ISBN 13: 9781644698013
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 394
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• Personne responsable: non disponible