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Author:
Joireman, Sandra Fullerton.
Title:
Where there is no government : enforcing property rights in common law Africa / Sandra F. Joireman.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
xv, 208 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Land tenure--Law and legislation--Africa, English-speaking.
Land tenure--Law and legislation--Ghana.
Land tenure--Law and legislation--Kenya.
Land tenure--Law and legislation--Uganda.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-200) and index.
Contents:
Colonization and the myth of the customary -- "Under the circumstances, we do what we can" : entrepreneurial bureaucrats and the allocation of property rights -- Property rights enforcement by other means : the role of non-governmental organizations -- Private enforcement of property rights : the demand for specialists in violence -- In search of order : state systems of property rights enforcement and their failings.
ISBN:
0199782482
9780199782482
OCLC:
(OCoLC)681536514
LCCN:
2010047445
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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