James Mahoney

Gebundenes Buch

Colonialism and Postcolonial Development

Beschreibung

This book explores why certain kinds of societies are subject to certain kinds of colonialism and why these forms of colonialism give rise to countries with differing levels of economic prosperity and social well-being.

Autor

James Mahoney is a Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America (2001), which received the Barrington Moore Jr. Prize of the Comparative and Historical Section of the American Sociological Association. He is also coeditor of Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2003), which received the Giovanni Sartori Book Award of the Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association and coeditor (with Kathleen Thelen) of Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 878g
• ISBN-13: 9780521116343
• ISBN-10: 0521116341
• Artikelnr.: 28108497