Jon Elster is professor emeritus at Columbia University and professeur honoraire at the College de France, Paris. He is the author of twenty previous books, including France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime (Princeton), the first volume in the present trilogy; Reason and Rationality (Princeton); Explaining Social Behavior; Securities Against Misrule; and Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist.
"Amazing, sensational, brilliant, wise."---Cass Sunstein
"America before 1787 is . . . the well-crafted effort of a seasoned
social scientist who has engaged in a lifetime of research and
work."---Jesse Russell, The Federalist
"[A] fresh examination of the so-called ‘divide and rule’ strategy
through which Britain sought to govern its North American colonial
empire,alongside the collective action colonists attempted to
develop to counteract the imperial system."
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