TY - BOOK ID - 12024308 TI - Farmers and the state in colonial Kano PY - 2005 SN - 0253346614 9786612072550 1282072552 0253111544 9780253111548 9781282072558 9780253346612 PB - Bloomington Indiana University Press DB - UniCat KW - Agriculture and state. KW - Farmers. KW - Land tenure. KW - Land tenure - Nigeria - Kano - History. KW - Land use, Rural. KW - Land tenure KW - Land use, Rural KW - Farmers KW - Agriculture and state KW - Business & Economics KW - Real Estate, Housing & Land Use KW - History KW - Government policy KW - Law and legislation KW - Economic conditions KW - History. KW - Economic conditions. KW - Great Britain KW - Colonies KW - Agrarian question KW - Agricultural policy KW - Agriculture KW - State and agriculture KW - Farm operators KW - Operators, Farm KW - Planters (Persons) KW - Rural land use KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Economic policy KW - Land reform KW - Agriculturists KW - Rural population KW - Land use KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Landowners KW - Serfdom UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12024308 AB - 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 ER -