Africa as a living laboratory
Subtitle: empire, development, and the problem of scientific knowledge, 1870-1950
By: Helen Tilley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780226803463; 9780226803470
Subjects: Imperialism and science; Research; African Research Survey; Colonies; Colonization; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-483] and index.
Table of contents: title: An imperial laboratory : scientific societies, geopolitics, and territorial acquisitions; title: A development laboratory : the African Research Survey, the machinery of knowledge, and imperial coordination; title: An environmental laboratory : "native" agriculture, tropical infertility, and ecological models of development; title: A medical laboratory : infectious diseases, ecological methods, and modernization; title: A racial laboratory : imperial politics, race prejudice, and mental capacity; title: An anthropological laboratory : ethnographic research, imperial administration, and magical knowledge; title: A living laboratory : ethnosciences, field sciences, and the problem of epistemic pluralism.