Africa as a living laboratory : empire, development, and the problem of scientific knowledge, 1870-1950.
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 imperia...
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| Médium: | Ouvrage |
| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2011.
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- 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.