Wild Enthusiasts
Bernard Porter: Science in Africa, 10 May 2012
Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950
by Helen Tilley.
Chicago, 496 pp., £18.50, April 2011,978 0 226 80347 0 Show More
by Helen Tilley.
Chicago, 496 pp., £18.50, April 2011,
“... that it was merely a means of keeping them down. So much for the famed ‘civilising mission’. Helen Tilley’s Africa as a Living Laboratory discusses the part played by science in all this. According to one modern anti-imperialist reading, science was merely a creature of colonialism, trapped within the dominant imperial discourse, and distorted to ... ”
