Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Foreword x
6. INTRODUCTION Land, Finance, Technology: Perspectives on Mortgage Lending 1
7. Part I Situating Land Mortgage in Time and Space
8. CHAPTER 1 The Glittering Mortgage, the Vanishing Farm: Enticement, Entrustment, Entrapment 37
9. CHAPTER 2 A Brief Legal and Social History of Mortgage 66
10. CHAPTER 3 Land Tenure From Fiscal Origins to Financialization 74
11. Part II Mortgage as Cultural Export: Land, Family, and the State
12. CHAPTER 4 Inheriting Debt: Legal Pluralism, Family Politics, and the Meaning of Wealth in Ghana 95
13. CHAPTER 5 Tales of Mortgage, Risk, and Taxation in Rural Senegal 119
14. CHAPTER 6 Signs of Trouble: Land, Loans, and Investments in Post-confl ict Northern Uganda 144
15. Part III Old Rules and New Twists: Reinventing and Resisting Land Financialization
16. CHAPTER 7 Reinventing Land Mortgage in Postsocialist Europe: The Romanian Case 161
17. CHAPTER 8 Distressed Publics: Circumventing the Mortgage from South Africa to Ireland 188
18. CHAPTER 9 Governing the Old City: Land Records, Digitization, and Liquidity in Lahore 216
19. Part IV Coming Full Circle: Hopes, Ideologies, and Life on the Ground
20. CHAPTER 10 Mortgage Credit as an Instrument of Economic Growth in Colonial Massachusetts, 1642–1777 233
21. CHAPTER 11 When Land Takes Wing: The Concentration of Holdings and the Human-Animal Dimension 261
22. CONCLUSION Envoi 280
23. Index 293