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.
Africa as a living laboratory : empire, development, and the problem of scientific knowledge, 1870-1950 by Helen Tilley. ISBN 9780226803470. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.