Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 327 pages)
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illustrations, map
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300116020
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0300152744
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128235194X
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9780300116021
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9780300152746
,
9781282351943
Serie:
Yale agrarian studies series
Inhalt:
This title looks briefly at European and North American theories on private property and the mortgage, then shows how these theories have played out as attempted economic reforms in Africa
Inhalt:
Introduction -- Sand and gold: some property history and theory -- Luo and others: migration, settlement, ethnicity -- An earthly anchorage: graves and the grounding of belonging -- Birthright and its borrowing: inheritance and land clientage under pressure -- The thin end: land and credit in the colonial period -- The ghost market: land titling and mortgaging after independence -- Nothing more serious: mortgaging and struggles over ancestral land -- Bigger than law: land and constitutionalism -- Conclusion: property, improperty, and the mortgage
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-314) and index
,
English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0300116020
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780300116021
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Shipton, Parker MacDonald Mortgaging the ancestors New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009
Sprache:
Englisch
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