Our Laws, Their Lands Land Laws and Land Use in Modern Colonial Societies

The European colonial powers imposed their land laws on many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America which were often at variance with indigenous customs regulating land use. After attaining independence, the new states mostly adhered to the colonial laws and did not revert to earlier customary law. The present volume discusses land laws in several West African states, India and Indonesia in Asia, and Mexico and Surinam in Latin America. The volume should be of interest to anthropologists and historians as well as to law scholars.De Moor, Jap is the author of 'Our Laws, Their Lands Land Laws and Land Use in Modern Colonial Societies' with ISBN 9783825820978 and ISBN 3825820971.