Natural experiments of history
edited by Jared Diamond, James A. Robinson
Natural experiments of history
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edited by Jared Diamond, James A. RobinsonEdition 1
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Natural experiments of history / edited by Jared Diamond, James A. RobinsonPublication Details
کمبریج : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press، 2010مPhysical Description
872 p.: ill., maps ; 22 cm.Subject
History - Comparative method Case studiesHistory - Methodology Case studies
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Includes bibliographical references.Contents
Prologue / Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson -- Controlled comparison and Polynesian cultural evolution / Patrick V. Kirch -- Exploding Wests: boom and bust in nineteenth-century settler societies / James Belich -- Politics, banking, and economic development: evidence from New World economies / Stephen Haber -- Intra-island and inter-island comparisons / Jared Diamond -- Shackled to the past: the causes and consequences of Africa's slave trades / Nathan Nunn -- Colonial land tenure, electoral competition, and public goods in India / Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer -- From ancien regime to capitalism: the spread of the French Revolution as a natural experiment / Daron Acemoglu, Davide Cantoni, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson -- Afterword: Using comparative methods in studies of human history / Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson