Sunday, November 22 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM • Room 404 (4th Floor)

Session 210
Why Some Rise and Others Don't: Inequality, Geography, and the Long Arc of State Formation

Chair: Dan Slater, University of Michigan
Discussant: Dan Slater, University of Michigan

1. The Egalitarian Peasant Society and Long-Run Paths of Development in East Asia • Wonik Kim, Louisiana State University.

2. The Origins of European Expansionism of the High Middle Ages: Revisiting the Crusades • Pavel Osinsky, Appalachian State University.

3. Multiple Paths of State Formation in Late Imperial China: Reconsidering the Great Divergence through the Early and Mid-Ming Eunuch Dispatch System (1368-1464) • Han Zhang, Renmin University of China; Ruizhe Zhang, Peking University.

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