{"product_id":"africa-as-a-living-laboratory-helen-tilley-9780226803470","title":"Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950","description":"\u003cp\u003eTropical 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. \u003ci\u003eAfrica as a Living Laboratory\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA key source for Helen Tilley'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 recommended an interdisciplinary approach to research on Africa that, Tilley argues, underscored the heterogeneity of African environments and the interrelations among the problems being studied. While the aim of British colonialists was unquestionably to transform and modernize Africa, their efforts, Tilley contends, were often unexpectedly subverted by scientific concerns with the local and vernacular. Meticulously researched and gracefully argued, \u003ci\u003eAfrica as a Living Laboratory\u003c\/i\u003e transforms our understanding of imperial history, colonial development, and the role science played in both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helen Tilley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226803473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226803470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.00w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2012","brand":"Helen Tilley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447604752639,"sku":"9780226803470","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e976b73c-555c-4330-8e77-d613a88609ee.jpg?v=1777233804","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/africa-as-a-living-laboratory-helen-tilley-9780226803470","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}