- Prologue: Natural Experiments of History [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]
- 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. Robinson]
- Afterword: Using Comparative Methods in Studies of Human History [Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson]
- Contributors
Natural Experiments of History
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Publication Date: 04/15/2011
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