The Evolution of a Nation: How Geography and Law Shaped the American States

by Daniel Berkowitz and Karen B. Clay

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691136041
• ISBN13: 9780691136042
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"