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David John Frank, Ann Hironaka, Evan Schofer, The Nation-State and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth Century, American Sociological Review, Vol. 65, No. 1, Looking Forward, Looking Back: Continuity and Change at the Turn of the Millenium (Feb., 2000), pp. 96-116
Frank et al. (Tue,) studied this question.