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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.
Ian W. Campbell is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Davis.
"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."
Alexander Morrison, Nazarbayev University, author of Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868–1910: A Comparison with British India:
"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."
Z. H. Claybaugh, Sacred Heart University:
"In his first book, Campbell (Univ. of California, Davis) makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of Russian imperial rule of the Kazakh Steppe. The author focuses on how czarist authorities and Kazakh intermediaries interacted to negotiate the process of making the population and territory of the steppe legible to the imperial state. This fascinating study weaves through the complexities of gathering, disseminating, and leveraging the empire's growing bureaucratic and scholarly knowledge base of the steppe to more effectively develop and exploit the territory. Joining a group of excellent works from the last decade focused on late-imperial Russian colonial rule in Central Asia, such as Alexander Morrison's Russian Rule in Samarkand, 1868–1910: A Comparison with British India (2005) and Jeff Sahadeo's Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923 (CH, Mar'08, 45-3949), Campbell's meticulously researched work highlights how this era of at-times cooperative acquisition of knowledge devolved into a one-sided colonial enterprise that led to chaos for the Kazakh Steppe at the end of Romanov rule."
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