Dear Friends:
There is an extensive literature, especially from England and European
publishers, on history and computing. I've put together a few basic
sources--most of which have excellent bibliographies in them and dozens of
case studies.
I've also included a basic set of readings citations for a possible case
study on historical methodoloy and computing--Time on the Cross.
Best,
Will
Quick Bibliography of History and Computing:
Charles Harvey and Jon Press, Databases in Historical Research: Theory,
Methods, and Applications (London: McMillan Press, 1996)
*has an excellent bibliography in it*
Peter Denley and Deian Hopkin, eds. History and Computing (Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1987)
Peter Denley, Stefan Fogelvik, and Charles Harvey, eds. History and
Computing II (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989)
Evan Mawdsley and Thomas Munck, Computing for Historians: An Introductory
Guide (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993)
Loren Haskins and Kirk Jeffrey, Understanding Quantitative History
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990)
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For Case Study of Computing in History--Time on the Cross and Historical
Methodology:
Barzun, J. "History: The Muse and Her Doctors," American Historical Review
77 (1972): 36-64.
Bogue, A. G. "Great Expectations and Secular Depreciation: The First 10
Years of the Social Science History Association," Social Science History 11
(1987)
Clubb, J. M. "The 'New' Quantitative History: Social Science or Old Wine
in New Bottles?" in J. M. Clubb and E. K. Scheuch (eds.), Historical
Sociological Research, 19-24.
------ and Allen, H. "Computers and Historical Studies," Journal of
American History, 54 (1967): 599-607.
David, Paul et. al. Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the
Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1976)
Erikson, C. "Quantitative History," American Historical Review 80 (1975):
351-65.
Fitch, N. "Statistical Fantasies and Historical Facts: History in Crisis
and its Methodological Implications," Historical Methods, 17 (1984): 239-54.
Fogel, R. W. and Stanley Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics of
American Negro Slavery (London: Little Brown, 1974) vol. I and vol. II
Evidence and Methods.
----- and G. R. Elton. Which Road to the Past? Two Views of History (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1983)
Gutman, Herbert. Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of "Time on the
Cross," (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975)
Himmelfarb, G. The New History and the Old (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1987)
Kousser, J. Morgan. "The State of Social Science History in the late
1980s," Historical Methods 22 (1989): 13-20.
William G. Thomas
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Virginia Center for Digital History
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University of Virginia
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