Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

C
HAPTER
 14 : B
REAKING THE
 M
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.

---

C
HAPTER
 15 : U
NDERSTANDING
 P
ROSPERITY AND