List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword Keith Hart Introduction. Land, Finance, Technology: Perspectives on Mortgage Lending Daivi Rodima-Taylor PART I: SITUATING LAND MORTGAGE IN TIME AND SPACE Chapter 1. The Glittering Mortgage, the Vanishing Farm: Enticement, Entrustment, Entrapment Parker Shipton Chapter 2. A Brief Legal and Social History of Mortgage David J. Seipp Chapter 3. Land Tenure: From Fiscal Origins to Financialization Michael Hudson 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 Sara Berry Chapter 5. Tales of Mortgage, Risk, and Taxation in Rural Senegal Kristine Juul Chapter 6.

Signs of Trouble: Land, Loans, and Investments in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda Mette Lind Kusk and Lotte Meinert Part III: Old Rules and New Twists: Reinventing and Resisting Land Financialization Chapter 7. Reinventing Land Mortgage in Post-Socialist Europe: The Romanian Case Stefan Dorondel, Daivi Rodima-Taylor and Marioara Rusu Chapter 8. Distressed Publics: Circumventing the Mortgage from South Africa to Ireland Nate Coben and Melissa K. Wrapp Chapter 9. Governing the Old City: Land Records, Digitization, and Liquidity in Lahore Tariq Rahman 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 Winifred B. Rothenberg Chapter 11. When Land Takes Wing: The Concentration of Holdings and the Human-Animal Dimension Parker Shipton Conclusion: Envoi Parker Shipton Index.