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Title:
The evolution of a nation : how geography and law shaped the American states
Author:
Berkowitz, Daniel.
ISBN:
9781400840540

9781283227483
Publication Information:
Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Series:
Princeton economic history of the western world

Princeton economic history of the Western world.
Abstract:
Although political and legal institutions are essential to any nation's economic development, the forces that have shaped these institutions are poorly understood. Drawing on rich evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, this book documents the mechanisms through which geographical and historical conditions--such as climate, access to water transportation, and early legal systems--impacted political and judicial institutions and economic growth. The book shows how a state's geography and climate influenced whether elites based.
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