Natural experiments of history [electronic resource] / edited by Jared Diamond, James A. Robinson.

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This book consists of eight comparative studies drawn from history, archeology, economics, economic history, geography, and political science. The studies cover a spectrum of approaches, ranging from a non-quantitative narrative style in the early chapters to quantitative statistical analyses in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Diamond, Jared M. Robinson, James A., 1960-
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	History > Comparative method > Case studies. History > Methodology > Case studies.
Genre:	Case studies.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2010 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2010 (EBSCO)
Format:	Electronic eBook

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 regime to capitalism: the spread of the French Revolution as a natural experiment / Daron Acemoglu, Davide Cantoni, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson
Afterword: Using comparative methods in studies of human history / Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson.