Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 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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Title
Farmers and the state in colonial Kano.
International Standard Book Number
0253346614
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Agriculture and state-- Nigeria-- Kano.
Farmers-- Nigeria-- Kano-- Economic conditions.
Land tenure-- Government policy-- Nigeria-- Kano-- History.
Land tenure-- Law and legislation-- Nigeria-- Kano-- History.
Land tenure-- Nigeria-- Kano-- History.
Land use, Rural-- Government policy-- Nigeria-- Kano-- History.
Agriculture and state.
British colonies.
Farmers-- Economic conditions.
Grundeigentum
Grundeigentum.
Kolonialverwaltung
Kolonialverwaltung.
Land tenure-- Government policy.
Land tenure-- Law and legislation.
Land tenure.
Land use, Rural-- Government policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.