Farmers and the state in colonial Kano : land tenure and the legal imagination /
Steven Pierce examines issues surrounding the colonial state and the distribution of state power in northern Nigeria. Here, Pierce deconstructs the colonial state and offers a unique reading of land tenure that challenges earlier views of the role of indirect rule. According to Pierce, land tenure w...
Основен автор: | Pierce, Steven, 1968- |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
℗♭2005.
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Farmers and the state in colonial Kano. |
Съдържание:
- Land and government in Kano
- Gandu and the semantic imagination
- Inventing land tenure
- Succession and secrecy
- Litigation and the public
- Representation through taxation
- The governing fetish.