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