Pub Date : 2024-11-05DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2024.2378791
Jawad Daheur, Julia Le Noë
By the end of the 19th century, shifts in forest property rights and associated forest uses by rural communities in Europe had affected both rural livelihood conditions and ecological functioning o...
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Pub Date : 2024-10-17DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2024.2414259
Mathias Johansson, Betto van Waarden
To analyze large, digitized corpora, we introduce the new approach of “structural reading”, which combines the abstraction of distant reading with the nuance of close reading. We do so by developin...
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In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological choices that entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing an incredible wealth of data for a...
{"title":"Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914","authors":"Stefania Galli, Dimitrios Theodoridis, Klas Rönnbäck","doi":"10.1080/01615440.2024.2400188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2400188","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological choices that entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing an incredible wealth of data for a...","PeriodicalId":501021,"journal":{"name":"Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142444508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2024.2398455
Mark A. McLean, David Andrew Roberts, Martin Gibbs
This article presents the findings of an experiment in the use of Artificial Intelligence text generation processes to convert historical ‘big data’ into narrative text. Using an extensive collecti...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2024.2378799
Juan Infante-Amate, Eduardo Aguilera
One of the main challenges facing our society is to decouple levels of well-being from environmental impacts, particularly greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe). Historical knowledge can provide crucial ...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-31DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2024.2368457
James W. Oberly
Question 20 on the 1870 US Census asked respondents if they had been denied the right to vote. The Census Office told Congress in 1871 that 40,800 men answered yes to the question. The Minnesota Po...
{"title":"Counting question 20 on the 1870 census, the denial of the right to vote: Different tallies by the Census Office; the Minnesota Population Center; and Ancestry.com","authors":"James W. Oberly","doi":"10.1080/01615440.2024.2368457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2368457","url":null,"abstract":"Question 20 on the 1870 US Census asked respondents if they had been denied the right to vote. The Census Office told Congress in 1871 that 40,800 men answered yes to the question. The Minnesota Po...","PeriodicalId":501021,"journal":{"name":"Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141899777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-21DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2024.2378794
Emilie Bonhoure, Olivier Musy, Ronan Tallec
Venality was the French system of sales of public positions called offices. It was a stable and central institution within the French Old Regime. Though widely studied by historians, the topic lack...
{"title":"Exploring French venality in the seventeenth century: Insights from a new database on offices","authors":"Emilie Bonhoure, Olivier Musy, Ronan Tallec","doi":"10.1080/01615440.2024.2378794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2378794","url":null,"abstract":"Venality was the French system of sales of public positions called offices. It was a stable and central institution within the French Old Regime. Though widely studied by historians, the topic lack...","PeriodicalId":501021,"journal":{"name":"Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History","volume":"345 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141768546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-16DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2024.2369230
Andreas Ferrara, Patrick A. Testa, Liyang Zhou
In applied historical research, geographic units often differ in level of aggregation across datasets. One solution is to use crosswalks that associate factors located within one geographic unit to...
{"title":"New area- and population-based geographic crosswalks for U.S. counties and congressional districts, 1790–2020","authors":"Andreas Ferrara, Patrick A. Testa, Liyang Zhou","doi":"10.1080/01615440.2024.2369230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2369230","url":null,"abstract":"In applied historical research, geographic units often differ in level of aggregation across datasets. One solution is to use crosswalks that associate factors located within one geographic unit to...","PeriodicalId":501021,"journal":{"name":"Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141915271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-12DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2024.2368458
Gregory Clark, Neil Cummins, Matthew Curtis
Using 1.6 m marriages, 1837–1939, and a genealogy of 428,000 people 1600–2022, we estimate three new occupational status indices for England 1800–1939. The first, CCC-HISCO, re-estimates the HISCAM...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2024.2344004
Marten Düring, Estelle Bunout, Daniele Guido
Semantically enriched historical newspapers offer a multitude of opportunities for data-driven exploration and analysis. In this paper we introduce the impresso interface which integrates several t...
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