Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848–1914: Networks and Laboratories of Knowledge by Călin Cotoi (review)

book is also important for Russian imperial history. The author could have benefited from consulting modern anthropological and sociological studies of Kyrgyzstan, as well as from making fuller use of epics of Kyrgyz ethnography. Although Shabdan was undoubtedly a central political figure in northern Kyrgyzstan, it seems productive to compare his biography and life choices to those of other local chieftains, such as Ormon from the Esengul subdivision, Tailyak and his son Osman from Sayaq, and Borombay from the Bugu tribe, some of whom are only cursorily mentioned in the book. These suggestions underscore the productivity of Akiyama’s study, which opens new directions for subsequent research on the topic. Doina Anca CRETU