Africa as a living laboratory: empire, development, and the problem of scientific knowledge, 1870-1950/
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London:
The University of Chicago Press,
2011
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Table of Contents:
- 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.