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02842aam a2200313Ia 4500 001 0BFDA3F2093211E28379C6BD6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120928010204 008 101223r20112010mauab b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9780674060197 (pbk.) 020 $a 0674060199 (pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)694228278 040 $a YDXCP $c YDXCP $d SILO $d BPJ $d UKMGB $d MR0 $d BDX $d IOK $d SILO 245 0 $a Natural experiments of history / $c edited by Jared Diamond, James A. Robinson 250 $a 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. 260 $a Cambridge, Mass. : $b Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $c 2011, c2010. 300 $a 278 p. : $b ill., maps ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 00 $g Afterword: $r Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson. $t Using comparative methods in studies of human history / $r Patrick V. Kirch -- $t Exploding Wests : boom and bust in nineteenth-century settler societies / $r James Belich -- $t Politics, banking, and economic development : evidence from New World economies / $r Stephen Haber -- $t Intra-island and inter-island comparisons / $r Jared Diamond -- $t Shackled to the past : the causes and consequences of Africa's slave trades / $r Nathan Nunn -- $t Colonial land tenure, electoral competition, and public goods in India / $r Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer -- $t From ancien reÌgime to capitalism : the spread of the French Revolution as a natural experiment / $r Daron Acemoglu, Davide Cantoni, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson -- $g Afterword: $t Using comparative methods in studies of human history / $r Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson. 520 $a 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 chapters. The studies range from a simple two-way comparison of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the island of Hispaniola, to comparisons of 81 Pacific islands and 233 areas of India. The societies discussed are contemporary ones, literate societies of recent centuries, and non-literate past societies. Geographically, they include the United States, Mexico, Brazil, western Europe, tropical Africa, India, Siberia, Australia, New Zealand, and other Pacific islands. 650 0 $a History $x Comparative method $v Case studies. 650 0 $a History $x Methodology $v Case studies. 700 1 $a Diamond, Jared M. 700 1 $a Robinson, James A., $d 1960- 856 42 $z Additional Information at Google Books $u http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0674060199 941 $a 1 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20120928010847.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0BFDA3F2093211E28379C6BD6AFF544E 994 $a C0 $b IOKInitiate Another SILO Locator Search