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

by HelenTilley (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $37.23

  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 scientific specialties and research methods. This title studies the thorny relationship between imperialism and the role of scientific expertise in the colonization of British Africa.