Farmers and the state in colonial Kano: land tenure and the legal imagination
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1. Verfasser: Pierce, Steven (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington Indiana University Press c2005
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Beschreibung:Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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 Western bias. In this sweeping and eloquent account of African history, readers will find an extended genealogy of land law and taxatio
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 262 p.)
ISBN:0253111544
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9780253111548
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