The works that this thesis analyzes are William Grimes’s Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave (originally published in 1825 and revised in 1855), Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), and Charles Chesnutt’s two novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1…
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This book presents a novel and innovative approach to the study of social evolution using case studies from the Old and the New World, from prehistory to the present. This approach is based on examining social evolution through the evolution of social institutions. Evolution is …
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Institutions Incorporated draws together aspects of human and organizational corporeality and links them to institutions. Throughout European anthropology and culture the body has been conceptualized as the 'dark side' to soul and reason. This book explores the 'dark side' of in…
This book celebrates the modern relevance of one of the founding fathers of development economics - Kurt Martin. His thought - drawn from the central conflict of the twentieth century between collective action and individual enterprise - has influenced a generation of scholars a…
This dissertation looks at the association between mass migration and changes to social life. Firstly, using a constructed data set of historical mass migrations, the dissertation compares the frequency of transformative changes in political institutions in periods following dec…
The Redeemed Christian Church of God, North America (RCCGNA), which began operation in the US in 1992, was not just another Pentecostal church creating a branch in the United States; it marked the beginnings of a concerted effort aimed at creating a cultural enclave where many N…
This study explores the determinants of entrepreneurial activity across nations. Taking a macro perspective that focuses on the big picture, national culture and social institutions are hypothesized to interact in interesting ways to set the stage for the creation of a new ventu…
This dissertation studies economic growth, directly and indirectly, from three different perspectives: labor markets, financial markets, and social institutions. The issues addressed are the effect on labor markets of implementing an unemployment insurance system when eligibilit…