• Contents<\> Preface Note on Orthography Introduction
• Part 1. Looking for Land Tenure
• 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.
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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 Western bias. In Pierce's view, colonial representations of land tenure claimed to reflect precolonial systems of rule, but instead, fundamentally misrepresented farmers' experience. He maintains that this misrepresentation created a paradox at the core of the colonial state which persists into the present and helps to explain contemporary problems in African states. In this sweeping and eloquent account of African history, readers will find an extended genealogy of land law and taxation as well as rich material on the power of indigenous knowledge and the persistence of colonial systems of rule.
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• From peasants to farmers
• The remaking of rural England
• ch. 1. From England to America
• ch. 2. This newfound land
• ch. 3. New lands, new peoples
• ch. 4. Deprivation, desire, and emigration
• ch. 5. Markets and farm households in early America
• The Farmers' War and its aftermath
• Toward a farmers' nation.

An interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, it tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement, and analyzes the growth of markets.

• Introduction : Expertise, development, and the state at the climax of empire
• 1. Setting the terms of the debate : science, the state, and the "new imperialism"
• 2. Developing the "imperial estate" : early patronage and pessimism for colonial scientific research and technical assistance, 1895-1914
• 3. Science for development : the expansion of colonial agricultural research and advisory networks, 1914-35
• 4. The "human side" of development : trusteeship and the turn to "native" health and education, 1918-35
• 5. View from the field : rethinking colonial agricultural and medical knowledge between the wars, 1920-40
• 6. View from above : the consolidation of knowledge and the reorganization of the colonial office, 1935-45
• 7. Triumph of the expert : development, environment, and the "second colonial occupation, " 1945-60
• Conclusion : Postcolonial consultants, agrarian doctrines of development, and the legacies of late colonialism.

The most striking feature of British colonialism in the twentieth century was the confidence it expressed in the use of science and expertise, especially when joined with the new bureaucratic capacities of the state, to develop natural and human resources of the empire. Triumph of the Expert is a history of British colonial doctrine and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and environmental policies in the late colonial and postcolonial period. Joseph Morgan Hodge examines the way that development as a framework of ideas and institutional practices emerged out of the str.

• Contents: Introduction-- The rise of the plantation economy-- Dark thoughts: reproducing whiteness in the tropics-- The quest to discipline estate labour-- The medical gaze and the spaces of bio-power-- Visualising crime in the coffee districts-- Landscapes of despair: the last years of coffee-- Conclusion-- Bibliography-- Index.
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In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and investigates the consequent ecological disaster which erased coffee from the island. Using this fascinating case study by way of illustration, In the Shadows of the Tropics reveals the spatial unevenness and fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biopower. It argues that the practices of colonial power, and the differences that race and tropical climates were thought to make, were central to the working out of modern governmental rationalities. In this context, the usefulness of Foucault's notions of biopower, discipline and governmentality are examined. The work contributes an important rural focus to current work on studies of governmentality in geography and offers a welcome non-state dimension by considering the role of the plantation economy and individual capitalists in the lives and deaths of labourers, the destabilization of subsistence farming and the aggressive re-territorialization of populations from India to Ceylon.
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• Introduction, Research Questions and Context; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Research Themes in Context: Background and Rationale; 1.3 Research Questions ; Methodology and Introduction to the Data Set; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Data Set; 2.3 Site Classification; 2.4 Limiting factors; 2.5 Species Diversity and Sample Size Problems; 2.6 Quantification; 2.7 Ageing; 2.8 Sexual Dimorphism; 2.9 Carcass Parts; 2.10 Software; Food, Diet and Status; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Livestock, Birds and Game; 3.3 Status and the Role of Signature Species: A case study; 3.4 Food and Diet; 3.5 The Social Divide.

• Animal Husbandry and Economy4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Cattle; 4.3 Sheep; 4.4 Pigs; 4.5 Animal Husbandry ; 4.6 Modes of Production and the Role of Animals in the Economy; Provisioning and Foodways; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Early Saxon Phase; 5.3 Middle Saxon Phase; 5.4 Late Saxon Phase ; 5.5 Producers and Consumers?; 5.6 Distribution Networks; 5.7 Ecclesiastical sites; Specialists and Spatial Organisation in Early Urban Contexts; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Wics; 6.3 Burhs; 6.4 Danish Towns/ Burhs; 6.5 Discussion; Food, Status and Economy in England A.D. 450-1066; Quantification of Major Taxa (NISP).

• Presence of the Most Common Wild BirdsPresence of Freshwater and Migratory Fish Taxa; Presence of Marine Fish Taxa; Mortality Profiles; Cattle Carcass Part Representation; Sheep/ Goat Carcass Part Representation; Pig Carcass Part Representation.

In this book an analysis of over 300 animal bone assemblages from English Saxon and Scandinavian sites is presented. The data set is summarised in extensive tables for use as comparanda for future archaeozoological studies. Animals in Saxon and Scandinavian England takes as its core four broad areas of analysis. The first is an investigation of the diet of the population, and how food was used to establish social boundaries. Increasingly diverse diets are recognised, with high-status populations distinguishing themselves from other social sectors through the way food was redistributed and the d.

• List of illustrations-- Acknowledgements--
• 1. Introduction--
• 2. The great interference--
• 3. Empire forestry and British India--
• 4. Environmental innovation in British India--
• 5. Empire forestry and the colonies--
• 6. Empire forestry and American environmentalism--
• 7. From empire forestry to Commonwealth forestry-- Bibliography-- Index.
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What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India, and during the second half of the nineteenth century, over ten per cent of the land surface of the earth became protected as a public trust. Sprawling forest reservations, many of them larger than modern nations, became revenue-producing forests that protected the whole 'household of nature', and Rudyard Kipling and Theodore Roosevelt were among those who celebrated a new class of government foresters as public heroes. Imperial foresters warned of impending catastrophe, desertification and global climate change if the reverse process of deforestation continued. The empire forestry movement spread through India, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and then the United States to other parts of the globe, and Gregory Barton's study looks at the origins of environmentalism in a global perspective.
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