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

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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...

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"

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History Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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

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