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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 later cha...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Diamond, Jared M. (Editor), Robinson, James A., 1960- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2010]
Subjects:
History > Comparative method > Case studies.
History > Methodology > Case studies.
Histoire > Méthode comparative > Études de cas.
Histoire > Méthodologie > Études de cas.
HISTORY > Historiography.
History > Comparative method.
History > Methodology.
Vergleichende Geschichtswissenschaft
Methode
Ökonomische Anthropologie
Fallstudie
Case studies.
Études de cas.
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Table of 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, Davide Cantoni, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson
  • Afterword: Using comparative methods in studies of human history / Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson.

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