A History Free of the Social Sciences?According to David Armitage and Jo Guldi, digitized sources and quantification almost naturally lead to the sort of longue durée history that they try to promote. This paper questions this assertion on the basis of the long tradition of quantitative history, open to exchanges with the social sciences and revived, not annihilated, by microhistory. The digitization of numerous historical sources does not call for less caution in our analyses—quite the contrary, as it creates new biases. More importantly, it does not solve the crucial question of controlled anachronism, i.e. the need for carefully constructed categories in any quantification based on the longue durée. The article also addresses the implica...
The aim of this paper is to circumscribe the specificity of moral sciences and to figure out the rol...
History is different from the other social sciences. Nine contrasting qualities have produced a str...
History is different from the other social sciences. Nine contrasting qualities have produced a str...
A History Free of the Social Sciences?According to David Armitage and Jo Guldi, digitized sources an...
This article outlines the present state of the debate on quantitative history in France. J.-L. Rober...
This article outlines the present state of the debate on quantitative history in France. J.-L. Rober...
As any emergent discipline, the so called "History of the present" in France had to develope a discu...
As any emergent discipline, the so called "History of the present" in France had to develope a discu...
Bernard Lepetit Quantitative history : A couple of things I know about it. Quantitative history is n...
Bernard Lepetit Quantitative history : A couple of things I know about it. Quantitative history is n...
Quantitative macro-economic history is only justified if in a first phase it is able to produce long...
Jean-Yves Grenier. Reflexions on the use of statistical methods in history. This article explains ho...
Quantitative macro-economic history is only justified if in a first phase it is able to produce long...
Jean-Yves Grenier. Reflexions on the use of statistical methods in history. This article explains ho...
The aim of this paper is to circumscribe the specificity of moral sciences and to figure out the rol...
The aim of this paper is to circumscribe the specificity of moral sciences and to figure out the rol...
History is different from the other social sciences. Nine contrasting qualities have produced a str...
History is different from the other social sciences. Nine contrasting qualities have produced a str...
A History Free of the Social Sciences?According to David Armitage and Jo Guldi, digitized sources an...
This article outlines the present state of the debate on quantitative history in France. J.-L. Rober...
This article outlines the present state of the debate on quantitative history in France. J.-L. Rober...
As any emergent discipline, the so called "History of the present" in France had to develope a discu...
As any emergent discipline, the so called "History of the present" in France had to develope a discu...
Bernard Lepetit Quantitative history : A couple of things I know about it. Quantitative history is n...
Bernard Lepetit Quantitative history : A couple of things I know about it. Quantitative history is n...
Quantitative macro-economic history is only justified if in a first phase it is able to produce long...
Jean-Yves Grenier. Reflexions on the use of statistical methods in history. This article explains ho...
Quantitative macro-economic history is only justified if in a first phase it is able to produce long...
Jean-Yves Grenier. Reflexions on the use of statistical methods in history. This article explains ho...
The aim of this paper is to circumscribe the specificity of moral sciences and to figure out the rol...
The aim of this paper is to circumscribe the specificity of moral sciences and to figure out the rol...
History is different from the other social sciences. Nine contrasting qualities have produced a str...
History is different from the other social sciences. Nine contrasting qualities have produced a str...