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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pierce, Steven, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land tenure--Nigeria--Kano--History.

Land tenure.

Land tenure--Government policy--Nigeria--Kano--History.

Land tenure--Law and legislation--Nigeria--Kano--History.

Land use, Rural--Government policy--Nigeria--Kano--History.

Land use, Rural.

Farmers--Nigeria--Kano--Economic conditions.

Farmers.

Agriculture and state--Nigeria--Kano.

Agriculture and state.

Great Britain--Colonies--Africa.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-257) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07255-2

9786612072550

0-253-11154-4

OCLC:

475995081