| Description |
1 online resource (287 pages) |
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Prologue -- Jared Diamond And James A. Robinson; 1. Controlled Comparison and Polynesian Cultural Evolution -- Patrick V. Kirch; 2. Exploding Wests: Boom and Bust in Nineteenth-Century Settler Societies -- James Belich; 3. Politics, Banking, and Economic Development: Evidence from New World Economies -- Stephen Haber; 4. Intra-Island and Inter-Island Comparisons -- Jared Diamond; 5. Shackled to the Past: The Causes and Consequences of Africa's Slave Trades -- Nathan Nunn; 6. Colonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition, and Public Goods in India -- Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer |
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7. From Ancien Régime to Capitalism: The Spread of the French Revolution as a Natural Experiment -- Daron Acemoglu, Davide Cantoni, Simon Johnson, and James A. RobinsonAfterword: Using Comparative Methods in Studies of Human History -- Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson; Contributors |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Robinson, James A
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| ISBN |
9780674076716 |
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0674076710 |
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