Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 262 p)
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ill
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0253346614
Content:
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
Note:
Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-257) and index
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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
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253346612
Additional Edition:
Print version Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano : Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination
Language:
English
URL:
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