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 imperialism and the role
of scientific expertise--environmental, medical, racial, and
anthropological--in the colonization of British Africa.
A 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, "Africa as a Living Laboratory" transforms our
understanding of imperial history, colonial development, and the
role science played in both.
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