TY - BOOK AU - Diamond,Jared M. AU - Robinson,James A. TI - Natural experiments of history SN - 9780674035577 (alk. paper) AV - bN285n 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Histoire KW - Methode comparative KW - Cas, Etudes de KW - Methodologie N1 - Bibliogr; 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 ER -