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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

Agriculture and state. --- Farmers. --- Land tenure. --- Land tenure - Nigeria - Kano - History. --- Land use, Rural. --- Land tenure --- Land use, Rural --- Farmers --- Agriculture and state --- Business & Economics --- Real Estate, Housing & Land Use --- History --- Government policy --- Law and legislation --- Economic conditions --- History. --- Economic conditions. --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- Agrarian question --- Agricultural policy --- Agriculture --- State and agriculture --- Farm operators --- Operators, Farm --- Planters (Persons) --- Rural land use --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Economic policy --- Land reform --- Agriculturists --- Rural population --- Land use --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom