The evolution of a nation [electronic resource] : how geography and law shaped the American states / Daniel Berkowitz and Karen B. Clay.
Series: Princeton economic history of the Western worldc2012Description: 1 online resource (1 v.) : ill., mapsISBN:- 9781400840540
- 1400840546
- How geography and law shaped the American states

Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Legal initial conditions -- Initial conditions and state political competition -- The mechanism -- State courts -- Legislatures and courts -- Institutions and outcomes.