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

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pierce, Steven, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, Ã2005.
Temas:
Land tenure > Nigeria > Kano > History.
Land tenure > Government policy > Nigeria > Kano > History.
Land tenure > Law and legislation > Nigeria > Kano > History.
Land use, Rural > Government policy > Nigeria > Kano > History.
Farmers > Nigeria > Kano > Economic conditions.
Agriculture and state > Nigeria > Kano.
Utilisation agricole du sol > Politique gouvernementale > Nigeria > Kano > Histoire.
Politique agricole > Nigeria > Kano.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Agriculture and state.
British colonies.
Farmers > Economic conditions.
Land tenure.
Land tenure > Government policy.
Land tenure > Law and legislation.
Land use, Rural > Government policy.
Grundeigentum
Kolonialverwaltung
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Afrique.
Africa.
Nigeria > Kano.
Emirat Kano
Groḃritannien
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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