Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-219) and index.
Contents
The unsettled land : an introduction -- Making the settler state : authority & the land -- Remaking the reserves : the Native Land Husbandry Act -- Remaking rural administration : knowing African society -- Chiefs, nationalism & the land : knowing the colonial state -- Governing the land in independent Zimbabwe -- Political conflict, authority & the land in Insiza -- Nationalism, 'Squatters' & chiefs in Chimanimani -- The new politics of an unsettled land.