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. |
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Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011 ©2011 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 496 pages) : illustrations, color maps |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11261541 |
Table of 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