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Farmers and the state in colonial Kano : land tenure and the legal imagination / Steven Pierce

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005 [©2005]

Online-Ressource (xii, 262 p) : ill ; 25 cm

Englisch

Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; NOTE ON ORTHOGRAPHY; Introduction; 1. Land and Government in Kano; 2. Gandu and the Semantic Imagination; 3. Inventing Land Tenure; Part 2. Looking Like a State; 4. Succession and Secrecy; 5. Litigation and the Public; 6. Representation through Taxation; 7. The Governing Fetish; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-257) and index

Print version: Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano : Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination

0-253-34661-4

978-0-253-34661-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

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In Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano, 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 was the means the colonial government used to rule the local population and extract taxes from them, but it was also a political logic with a fundamental flaw and a Wes