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Author Tilley, Helen, 1968-

Title Africa as a living laboratory : empire, development, and the problem of scientific knowledge, 1870-1950 / Helen Tilley.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 496 pages) : illustrations, color maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents An imperial laboratory : scientific societies, geopolitics, and territorial acquisitions -- A development laboratory : the African Research Survey, the machinery of knowledge, and imperial coordination -- An environmental laboratory : "native" agriculture, tropical infertility, and ecological models of development -- A medical laboratory : infectious diseases, ecological methods, and modernization -- A racial laboratory : imperial politics, race prejudice, and mental capacity -- An anthropological laboratory : ethnographic research, imperial administration and magical knowledge -- A living laboratory : ethnosciences, field sciences, and the problem of epistemic pluralism.
Summary Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. Africa as a Living Laboratory is a far-reaching study of the thorny relationship between imperialism and the role of scientific expertise--environmental, medical, racial, and anthropological--in the colonization of British Africa. A key source for Helen Tilley's analysis is the African Research Survey, a project undertaken in the 1930s to explore how modern science was being applied to African pr.
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Subject African Research Survey.
African Research Survey.
Research Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Duke University. Research Africa -- History -- 21st century.
Duke University.
History.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Imperialism and science -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Imperialism and science.
Africa.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Imperialism and science -- Africa -- History -- 21st century.
Africa -- Research -- History -- 20th century.
Research.
Africa -- Research -- History -- 21st century.
Africa -- Colonization -- History -- 20th century.
Colonization.
Africa -- Colonization -- History -- 21st century.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain.
Colonies.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 21st century.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Tilley, Helen, 1968- Africa as a living laboratory. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011 9780226803463 (DLC) 2010023092 (OCoLC)645707879
ISBN 9780226803487 (electronic book)
0226803481 (electronic book)
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9781283097666
9780226803463
9780226803470
0226803465
0226803473