Africa As a Living Laboratory - Empire, Development, Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870 1950

Informationen zum Autor Helen Tilley is affiliated with the Department of Medical History and Bioethics and the Program in African Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She is the editor! with Robert Gordon! of Ordering Africa: Anthropology! European Imperialism! and the Politics of Knowledge. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Helen Tilley
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.04.2011
• EAN: 9780226803470
• ISBN: 978-0-226-80347-0
• No. of pages: 520
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Afrika, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Afrikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SCIENCE / History, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science, Colonialism and imperialism, African History