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Publication
Farmers and the state in colonial Kano
2005
Overview
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 Wes
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Subject
/ Agriculture and state -- Nigeria -- Kano
/ Farmers
/ Farmers -- Nigeria -- Kano -- Economic conditions
/ Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa
/ 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
ISBN
9780253346612, 0253346614
