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Natural experiments of history /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Diamond, Jared M., Robinson, James A., 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
History > Comparative method > Case studies.
History > Methodology > Case studies.
Table of 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 rĂ©gime to capitalism : the spread of the French Revolution as a natural experiment / Daron Acemoglu ... [et al.]
  • Afterword: Using comparative methods in studies of human history / Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson.