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James C. McCann

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48

Publications

5K

Citations

28

H-Index

1929

Active since

Affiliations

University of Washington(Current)

Boston University

Carnegie Mellon University

James C. McCann is an author at University of Washington specializing in social sciences, african development, and african history.

Top concepts

Social SciencesAfrican DevelopmentAfrican HistoryAnthropologyColonialismAfrican StudiesGeographyEnvironmental HistoryBusinessMedicine

Publications per year

1929–2024

48

Publications

48

Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

James C. McCann, James C. Scott · The International Journal of African Historical Studies · 1998 · 2.4K citations

Behavioral Sciences, Human Condition, Behavioral Insight +4

The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation and British Imperialism

James C. McCann, John M. MacKenzie · The International Journal of African Historical Studies · 1999 · 412 citations

Colonialism, South African History, British Imperialism +16

The Mathematics of Collective Action.

James C. McCann, James S. Coleman · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1976 · 281 citations

Behavioral Decision Making, Social Process, Game Theory +17

Market Forces and Catholic Commitment: Exploring the New Paradigm

Rodney Stark, James C. McCann · Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · 1993 · 130 citations

Religiosity, Religious Pluralism, Social Stratification +16

Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800-1990

Gail M. Gerhart, James C. McCann · Foreign Affairs · 2000 · 122 citations

Historical Geography, Colonialism, Green Land +18

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