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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Pierce Steven <1968->"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Farmers and the state in colonial Kano [[electronic resource] ] : land tenure and the legal imagination / / Steven Pierce"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-282-07255-2"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786612072550"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-253-11154-4"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (281 p.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"306.3/49/0966978"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Land tenure - Nigeria - Kano - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Land tenure - Government policy - Nigeria - Kano - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Land tenure - Law and legislation - Nigeria - Kano - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Land use, Rural - Government policy - Nigeria - Kano - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Farmers - Nigeria - Kano - Economic conditions"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Agriculture and state - Nigeria - Kano"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Great Britain Colonies Africa"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-257) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"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"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","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"]