Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950

by Helen Tilley

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226803473
• ISBN13: 9780226803470
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 8.8"