Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2011
This study was undertaken in an effort to use data from European history to develop a model that might prove useful for describing, explaining, and predicting the patterns of political development and international behavior of some of the newly independent states of Asia and Africa. My interest in exploring the experiences of several European states grew out of dissatisfaction with efforts to build development theories exclusively upon knowledge of the contemporary developing areas in which the outcomes are unknown, where the periods of time with which we can work are often too short for testing any long-term development theories, and where we are often unable to distinguish between short-term, momentary changes and long-term, persistent patterns of growth or decay.
1 In Italian, the term irredenta was used. The Italian-speaking provinces outside the Italian peninsula were regarded as “unredeemed” or irredenta, and the supporters of “redemption” by union with Italy were called “irredentist,” a word then applied to aspirations of other national minorities for separation from the state in which they live.
2 Gerschenkron, Alexander, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (Cambridge, Mass. 1962), 233Google Scholar.
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