This is an original empirical and theoretical study of the use of law to secure land tenure in the face of poverty. urban and peri-urban growth and changing social structures. How easy is it to replace customary law with individual land rights?; is this the road to poverty reduction and capitalist development. as de Soto suggested in The Mystery of Capital? The result of a research project commissioned by the UK Department for International Development. this multidisciplinary book offers case studies from Botswana. Trinidad and Zambia. and analyses wider issues. including colonial legacies...
This is an original empirical and theoretical study of the use of law to secure land tenure in the face of poverty. urban and peri-urban growth and ch...
At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired. - Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th 18th Centuries
This, surely, is an apt description of the British Empire at its zenith.
Of Planting and Planning explores how Britain used the formation of towns and cities as an instrument of colonial expansion and control throughout the Empire. Beginning with the seventeenth-century plantation of Ulster and ending with decolonization after the Second World War, Robert Home...
At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and a...
