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Natural experiments of history
- Title
- Natural experiments of history / edited by Jared Diamond, James A. Robinson.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
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- Description
- 278 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 10-1420
- ISBN
- 9780674035577 (alk. paper)
- 0674035577 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009012678
- OCLC
- YBP 2009012678
- Title
- Natural experiments of history / edited by Jared Diamond, James A. Robinson.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Diamond, Jared M.Robinson, James A., 1960-
- Research Call Number
- JFD 10-1420