Natural experiments of history
By: edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson.
Contributors: Diamond, Jared M.; Robinson, James A., 1960-
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780674035577
Subjects: History -- Comparative method -- Case studies; History -- Methodology -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Natural experiments of history / Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson; title: Controlled comparison and Polynesian cultural evolution / Patrick V. Kirch; title: Exploding Wests : boom and bust in nineteenth-century settler societies / James Belich; title: Politics, banking, and economic development : evidence from New World economies / Stephen Haber; title: Intra-island and inter-island comparisons / Jared Diamond; title: Shackled to the past : the causes and consequences of Africa's slave trades / Nathan Nunn; title: Colonial land tenure, electoral competition, and public goods in India / Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer; title: 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; title: Afterword: Using comparative methods in studies of human history / Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson.