Africa As a Living Laboratory Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950

Name: Africa As a Living Laboratory Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950
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ISBN: 9780226803470

ISBN-10: 0226803473

ISBN-13: 9780226803470

Edition: 2011

Authors: Helen Tilley

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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 Laboratoryis a far-reaching study of the thorny relationship between imperialism and the role of scientific expertiseenvironmental, medical, racial, and anthropologicalin 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 problems. This project both embraced and recommended an interdisciplinary approach to research on…

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 520
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Helen Tilley is associate professor of history at Northwestern University and is affiliated with the programs in African Studies and Science in Human Culture.



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Acknowledgments


Introduction: Africa as a Living Laboratory



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: ï¿½Nativeï¿½ 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


Appendix: African Colonial Service Employment, 1913-51


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