Africa as a living laboratory: empire, development, and the problem of scientific knowledge, 1870-1950/

Main Author: Tilley, Helen, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011
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300 |a xiv, 496 p. :  |b ill., maps (chiefly col.) ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliography (p. [439]-483] and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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