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

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Author / Creator:Tilley, Helen, 1968- author.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011
©2011
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 496 pages) : illustrations, color maps
Language:English
Subject:African Research Survey.
African Research Survey.
African Research Survey.
Großbritannien -- Consulate -- Frankfurt am Main
Research -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Research -- Africa -- History -- 21st century.
Imperialism and science -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Imperialism and science -- Africa -- History -- 21st century.
Biomedical Research -- history.
Colonialism -- history.
History, 20th Century.
History, 21st Century.
SCIENCE -- History.
British colonies.
Colonization.
Imperialism and science.
Research.
Forschung
Naturwissenschaften
Imperialismus
Kolonialismus
Kolonie
Imperialism.
Anthropological aspects.
Agricultural development.
Eugenics.
Racial theories.
Ecological aspects.
Forschung.
Naturwissenschaften.
Imperialismus.
Kolonialismus.
Kolonie.
Forskning -- historia -- Afrika -- 1870-1914 -- 1900-talet.
Imperialism -- historia -- Afrika -- 1870-1914 -- 1900-talet.
Science.
Africa -- Research -- History -- 20th century.
Africa -- Research -- History -- 21st century.
Africa -- Colonization -- History -- 20th century.
Africa -- Colonization -- History -- 21st century.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 21st century.
Africa.
United Kingdom.
Africa.
Afrika
Africa.
Afrika.
Großbritannien.
Afrika -- forskning -- historia -- 1870-1914 -- 1900-talet.
Afrika -- kolonisering -- historia -- 1870-1914 -- 1900-talet.
History.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11261541
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9780226803487
0226803481
9781283097666
1283097664
9780226803463
0226803465
9780226803470
0226803473
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index
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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 problems. This project both embraced and recommended an interdisciplinary approach to research on Africa that, Tilley argues, underscored the heterogeneity of African environments and the interrelations among the problems being studied. While the aim of British colonialists was unquestionably to transform and modernize Africa, their efforts, Tilley contends, were often unexpectedly subverted by scientific concerns with the local and vernacular. Meticulously researched and gracefully argued, Africa as a Living Laboratory transforms our understanding of imperial history, colonial development, and the role science played in both"
Other form:Print version: Tilley, Helen, 1968- Africa as a living laboratory. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011 9780226803463
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