Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950
Helen Tilley
Abstract
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. This book studies the relationship between imperialism and the role of scientific expertise—environmental, medical, racial, and anthropological—in the colonization of British Africa. A key source for the author'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 recommen ... More
Keywords: European colonialism, imperialism, environmental science, medical science, racial science, anthropology, African Research Survey, interdisciplinary
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226803463 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: March 2013 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226803487.001.0001 |
