Natural experiments of history /
Diamond, Jared M.
Robinson, James A.,1960-
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references.
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 régime 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.
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