{"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}
Mark A. McLean, David Andrew Roberts, Martin Gibbs
{"title":"Ghosts and the machine: testing the use of Artificial Intelligence to deliver historical life course biographies from big data","authors":"Mark A. McLean, David Andrew Roberts, Martin Gibbs","doi":"10.1080/01615440.2024.2398455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2398455","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":501021,"journal":{"name":"Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142415580","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}
{"title":"Beyond fossil fuels: Considering land-based emissions reshapes the carbon intensity of modern economic growth (Spain, 1860–2017)","authors":"Juan Infante-Amate, Eduardo Aguilera","doi":"10.1080/01615440.2024.2378799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2378799","url":null,"abstract":"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 ...","PeriodicalId":501021,"journal":{"name":"Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142085390","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}
{"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}
{"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}
{"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}
{"title":"Three new occupational status indices for England and Wales, 1800–1939","authors":"Gregory Clark, Neil Cummins, Matthew Curtis","doi":"10.1080/01615440.2024.2368458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2368458","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":501021,"journal":{"name":"Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141602772","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}
{"title":"Transparent generosity. Introducing the impresso interface for the exploration of semantically enriched historical newspapers","authors":"Marten Düring, Estelle Bunout, Daniele Guido","doi":"10.1080/01615440.2024.2344004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2344004","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":501021,"journal":{"name":"Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141329718","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}
Alexis D. Litvine, Arthur Starzec, Rehmana Younis, Yannick Faula, Mickaël Coustaty, Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Véronique Églin
{"title":"Built-up areas of nineteenth-century Britain. An integrated methodology for extracting high-resolution urban footprints from historical maps","authors":"Alexis D. Litvine, Arthur Starzec, Rehmana Younis, Yannick Faula, Mickaël Coustaty, Leigh Shaw-Taylor, Véronique Églin","doi":"10.1080/01615440.2024.2324163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2324163","url":null,"abstract":"Using both “off the shelf” remote sensing software, machine learning and computational algorithms, this article details a new methodology to extract building and urban footprints from historical ma...","PeriodicalId":501021,"journal":{"name":"Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140961531","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}
{"title":"Downtown Toronto’s emergent properties: Exploring new methods for using port records to disaggregate urban metabolism in Toronto, Ontario, 1850-1926","authors":"Andrew Watson, Joshua MacFadyen, Hannah Willness","doi":"10.1080/01615440.2024.2316032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2316032","url":null,"abstract":"Between 1850 and 1926 Ontario’s capital city, Toronto, grew from a small colonial port to one of the largest cities on the Great Lakes. In this article we introduce a rich time series dataset of sh...","PeriodicalId":501021,"journal":{"name":"Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140534152","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}