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ISBN: 1283097664 9786613097668 0226803481 9780226803487 9781283097666 9780226803463 0226803465 9780226803470 0226803473 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chicago
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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.
Research --- Imperialism and science --- History --- African Research Survey. --- Africa --- Great Britain --- Colonization --- Colonies --- scientific knowledge, empire, science, colonialism, africa, imperialism, african research survey, anthropology, medicine, race, environmentalism, colonies, colonization, territory, land use, agriculture, tropical, infectious diseases, field sciences, administration, history, nonfiction, modernity, intelligence, mental capacity, methodology.
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ISBN: 9780226803470 9780226803463 0226803465 0226803473 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,
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'Africa as a Living Laboratory' is a study of the relationship between imperialism & scientific expertise - environmental, medical, racial & anthropological - in the colonization of British Africa.
History of Africa --- Research --- Imperialism and science --- Recherche --- Impérialisme et sciences --- History --- Histoire --- African Research Survey. --- Africa --- Great Britain --- Afrique --- Grande-Bretagne --- Colonization --- Colonies --- Colonisation --- Science and imperialism --- Science --- Science research --- Scientific research --- Information services --- Learning and scholarship --- Methodology --- Research teams --- Eastern Hemisphere --- History. --- anno 1800-1999 --- Agricultural development. --- Anthropological aspects. --- Biomedical Research --- British colonies. --- Colonialism --- Colonization. --- Ecological aspects. --- Eugenics. --- Forschung. --- History, 20th Century. --- History, 21st Century. --- Imperialism and science. --- Imperialism. --- Imperialismus. --- Impérialisme et sciences --- Kolonialismus. --- Kolonie. --- Médecine --- Naturwissenschaften. --- Racial theories. --- Research. --- Science. --- Subsaharan Africa. --- United Kingdom. --- colonialism. --- research. --- science. --- 1850-1900. --- 1900-1950. --- 1900-2099. --- Africa. --- Afrika. --- Afrique. --- Gro�britannien.
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