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altitude of 830 km ( http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/sensors/ols.html ).
Map 8 : Constructed from data in Jerome Blum (1998),
The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe
(Princeton: Princeton University Press).
Map 9 : Adapted from the maps in Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker (1988),
The Spanish Armada
(London: Hamilton), pp. i–ii, 243.
Map 10 : Adapted from Simon Martin and Nikolai Gribe (2000),
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(London: Thames and Hudson), p. 21.
Map 11 : Map adapted from Mark A. Kishlansky, Patrick Geary, and Patricia O’Brien (1991),
Civilization in the West
(New York: HarperCollins Publishers), p. 151.
Map 12 : Somali clan families adapted from Ioan M. Lewis (2002),
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History of Africa
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Map 13 : J. R. Walton (1998), “Changing Patterns of Trade and Interaction Since 1500,” in R. A. Butlin and R. A. Dodgshon, eds.,
An Historical Geography of Europe
(Oxford: Oxford University Press), figure 15.2, p. 326.
Map 14 : Adapted from Anthony Reid (1988),
Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450–1680: Volume 1, The Land Below the Winds
(New Haven: Yale University Press), map 2, p. 9.
Map 15 : Drawn from data taken from Nathan Nunn (2008), “The Long Term Effects of Africa’s Slave Trades,”
Quarterly Journal of Economics
123, no. 1, 139–76.
Map 16 : Maps based on the following maps: for South Africa, A. J. Christopher (2001),
The Atlas of Changing South Africa
(London: Routledge), figure1.19, p. 31; for Zimbabwe, Robin Palmer (1977),
Land and Racial Domination in Rhodesia
(Berkeley: University of California Press), map 5, p. 245.
Map 17 : Adapted from Alexander Grab (2003),
Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe
(London: Palgrave Macmillan), map 1, p. 17; map 2, p. 91.
Map 18 : Drawn using data from the 1840 U.S. Census, downloadable at the National Historical Geographic Information System: http://www.nhgis.org/ .
Map 19 : Drawn using data from the 1880 U.S. Census, downloadable at the National Historical Geographic Information System: http://www.nhgis.org/ .
Map 20 : Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, and Rafael J. Santos (2010), “The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia,” at http://scholar.harvard.edu/jrobinson/files/
jr_formationofstate.pdf .
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