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1 online resource (xiv, 496 pages) : illustrations, color maps |
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polychrome |
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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African Research Survey.
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African Research Survey. |
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Research Africa -- History -- 20th century.
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Duke University. Research Africa -- History -- 21st century.
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Duke University. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Imperialism and science -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
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Imperialism and science. |
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Africa. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Imperialism and science -- Africa -- History -- 21st century.
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Africa -- Research -- History -- 20th century.
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Research. |
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Africa -- Research -- History -- 21st century.
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Africa -- Colonization -- History -- 20th century.
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Colonization. |
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Africa -- Colonization -- History -- 21st century.
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
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Great Britain. |
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Colonies. |
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 21st century.
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Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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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) |
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0226803481 (electronic book) |
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1283097664 |
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9781283097666 |
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9780226803463 |
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9780226803470 |
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0226803465 |
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0226803473 |
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