Why Nations Fail

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HAPTER
 14 : B
REAKING THE
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OLD
Our treatment of Botswana follows Acemoglu, Johnson,
and Robinson (2003); Robinson and Parsons (2006); and
Leith (2005). Schapera (1970) and Parsons, Henderson,
and 
Tlou 
(1995) 
are 
fundamental 
works. 
High
Commissioner Rey is quoted in Acemoglu, Johnson, and
Robinson (2003), p. 96. The discussion of the three chiefs’
visit to England follows Parsons (1998), and all quotes
relating to this come from his book: Chamberlain, pp. 206–
7; Fairfield, p. 209; and Rhodes, p. 223. Schapera is
quoted from Schapera (1940), p. 72. The quote from Quett
Masire is from Masire (2006), p. 43. On the ethnic
composition of the Tswana tribes, see Schapera (1952).
Our treatment of change in the U.S. South follows
Acemoglu and Robinson (2008b). On the population
movement out of the U.S. South, see Wright (1999); on the
mechanization of cotton picking, Heinicke (1994). “FRDUM
FOOF SPETGH” is quoted from Mickey (2008), p. 50.
Thurmond’s 
1948 
speech 
is 
taken 
from
www.slate.com/id/2075151/
, where you also can listen to
the audio recording. On James Meredith and Oxford,
Mississippi, see Doyle (2001). See Wright (1999) on the
impact of civil rights legislation on black voting in the South.
On the nature and politics of China’s political transition
after the death of Mao, see Harding (1987) and
MacFarquhar and Schoenhals (2008). Deng’s quote about
the cat is from Harding, p. 58. The first point of the Cultural
Revolution is from Schoenhals (1996), p. 33; Mao on Hitler
is from MacFarquhar and Schoenhals, p. 102; Hua on the
“Two Whatevers” is from Harding, p. 56.

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