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200 10$aFarmers and the state in colonial Kano$b[electronic resource] $eland tenure and the legal imagination /$fSteven Pierce
210   $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2005
215   $a1 online resource (281 p.)
300   $aBased on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan.
311   $a0-253-34661-4 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-257) and index.
327   $aCover; 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
330   $aIn 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 
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606   $aLand use, Rural$xGovernment policy$zNigeria$zKano$xHistory
606   $aFarmers$zNigeria$zKano$xEconomic conditions
606   $aAgriculture and state$zNigeria$zKano
607   $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAfrica
608   $aElectronic books.
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615  0$aLand use, Rural$xGovernment policy$xHistory.
615  0$aFarmers$xEconomic conditions.
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