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SUMMARY:Practice job talks - Matteo Sestito
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DESCRIPTION:Subject to popular flee\, internal rebellions and diseases\, st
 ates have historically developed only under very particular agro-ecological
  circumstances. This paper advances and empirically validates a new perspec
 tive on state formation\, helping to understand their paucity and uneven de
 velopment across the globe throughout the pre-industrial era. I posit that 
 the dissimilarity of the agricultural calendar was one of the fundamental c
 onstraints for the emergence and persistence of centralised governments. Us
 ing data from the Ethnographic Atlas\, I provide evidence that the heteroge
 neity of agricultural growing seasons was a crucial barrier to state centra
 lisation. This holds true when controlling for a wide range of alternative 
 determinants of state-building. The use of potential\, rather than observed
 \, agro-ecological data\, as well as various robustness tests\, give credit
  to an interpretation of the results beyond the mere correlation. Additiona
 l evidence on 19th century taxation in India and China\, sheds light on the
  precise mechanisms whereby crop cycle heterogeneity hindered political cen
 tralisation.\\n\\nContact: Timothée Demont : timothee.demont[at]univ-amu.f
 r\n\nPlus d'informations: https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/ma
 tteo-sestito-1
LOCATION:Îlot Bernard du Bois - Salle 21\, AMU - AMSE\, 5-9 boulevard Maur
 ice Bourdet\, 13001 Marseille
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/matteo-sestito-1
CONTACT:Timothée Demont : timothee.demont[at]univ-amu.fr
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