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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
Ã2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 262 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0253111544 9780253111548 1282072552 9781282072558 |