Africa as a living laboratory [Elektronisk resurs] empire, development, and the problem of scientific knowledge, 1870-1950 / Helen Tilley.

• Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Ch. 1: An Imperial Laboratory; Ch. 2: A Development Laboratory; Ch. 3: An Environmental Laboratory; Ch. 4: A Medical Laboratory; Ch. 5: A Racial Laboratory; Ch. 6: An Anthropological Laboratory; Ch. 7: A Living Laboratory; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 

• 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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Kolonisation  (sao)

Forskning  -- historia -- Afrika -- 1870-1914 -- 1900-talet (sao)

Imperialism  -- historia -- Afrika -- 1870-1914 -- 1900-talet (sao)

Africa --Colonization --History --20th century. 

Africa --Colonization --History --21st century. 

Africa --Research --History --20th century. 

Africa --Research --History --21st century. 

African Research Survey. 

Great Britain --Colonies --Africa --History --20th century. 

Great Britain --Colonies --Africa --History --21st century. 

Imperialism and science --Africa --History --20th century. 

Imperialism and science --Africa --History --21st century. 

Research --Africa --History --20th century. 

Research --Africa --History --21st century. 

Colonization  (LCSH)

Afrika  -- forskning -- historia -- 1870-1914 -- 1900-talet (sao)

Afrika  -- historia -- 1870-1914 -- 1900-talet (sao)

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Institutionsnamn

African Research Survey

Klassifikation

Q180.A5T55 2011 (LCC)

509.609034 (DDC)

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