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Tilley, Helen

 
9780226803470: Africa As a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950
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ISBN 10: 0226803473 ISBN 13: 9780226803470
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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 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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Helen Tilley is affiliated with the Department of Medical History and Bioethics and the Program in African Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the editor, with Robert Gordon, of Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European Imperialism, and the Politics of Knowledge.

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Editore
Univ of Chicago Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2011
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0226803473
ISBN 13 
9780226803470
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Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
496
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The University of Chicago Press
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