Seeing like a half-blind state : getting to know the central Eurasian steppe, 1731-1840s
Information revolution and administrative reform, ca. 1845-1868
An imperial biography : Ibrai Altynsarin as ethnographer and educator, 1841-1889
The key to the world's treasures : Russian science, local knowledge, and the civilizing mission on the Siberian steppe
Norming the steppe : statistical knowledge and tsarist resettlement, 1896-1917
A double failure : epistemology and the crisis of a settler colonial empire
Conclusion : transitional states : knowledge and the transformation of the steppe.