Natural Experiments of History

Informationen zum Autor Jared Diamond is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Guns, Germs, and Steel . James A. Robinson is Professor of Government, Harvard University. Klappentext 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; geographically, they include the United States, Mexico, Brazil, western Europe, tropical Africa, India, Siberia, Australia, New Zealand, and other Pacific islands. Zusammenfassung 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; geographically! they include the United States! Mexico! Brazil! western Europe! tropical Africa! India! Siberia! Australia! New Zealand! and other Pacific islands. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Prologue: Natural Experiments of History 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 * Contributors

Product details

• Authors: Jared Diamond, Jared Robinson Diamond, James A. Robinson
• Assisted by: Jared Diamond (Editor), James A. Robinson (Editor), Robinson James A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2011
• EAN: 9780674060197
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06019-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 211 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History, Politik und Staat, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, HISTORY / Historiography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Historiography, Social and cultural anthropology