Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History

2013 - 2025

Current editor(s): J. David Hacker and Kenneth Sylvester

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Volume 54, issue 4, 2021

Mapping the Third Republic: A Geographic Information System of France (1870–1940) pp. 189-207

Victor Gay

How many countries in the world? The geopolitical entities of the world and their political status from 1816 to the present pp. 208-227

Béatrice Dedinger and Paul Girard

Using word analysis to track the evolution of emotional well-being in nineteenth-century industrializing Britain pp. 228-247

Pierre Lack

Volume 54, issue 3, 2021

The British business census of entrepreneurs and firm-size, 1851–1881: New data for economic and business historians pp. 129-150

Carry van Lieshout, Robert J. Bennett and Harry Smith

Locating the Manhattan housing market: GIS evidence for 1880-1910 pp. 151-171

Rowena Gray and Rocco Bowman

Political coalitions in the House of Commons, 1660–1690: New data and applications pp. 172-187

Kara Dimitruk

Volume 54, issue 2, 2021

What is a product anyway? Applying the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) to historical data pp. 65-79

Wolf-Fabian Hungerland and Christoph Altmeppen

The Capacity Trend Method: A new approach for enumerating the Newfoundland cod fisheries (1675–1790) pp. 80-93

John Nicholls, Bernard Allaire and Poul Holm

Wealth and demography in Ottoman probate inventories: A database in very long-term perspective pp. 94-127

Hülya Canbakal and Alpay Filiztekin

Volume 54, issue 1, 2021

Exploring the dynamic changes of key concepts of the Hungarian socialist era with natural language processing methods pp. 1-13

Martina Katalin Szabó, Orsolya Ring, Balázs Nagy, László Kiss, Júlia Koltai, Gábor Berend, László Vidács, Attila Gulyás and Zoltán Kmetty

The reuse of texts in Finnish newspapers and journals, 1771–1920: A digital humanities perspective pp. 14-28

Hannu Salmi, Petri Paju, Heli Rantala, Asko Nivala, Aleksi Vesanto and Filip Ginter

Computational genealogy: Continuities and discontinuities in the political rhetoric of US presidents pp. 29-43

Tobias Blanke and Claudia Aradau

Seasonal components of infant mortality at the onset of the transition reveal the role of water-borne and air-borne diseases: the case of the Don Army Territory (Southern Russia), 1872–1915 pp. 44-62

Noël Bonneuil and Elena Fursa

Correction pp. 63-63

The Editors

Volume 53, issue 4, 2020

Wealth inequality and economic mobility in the post-revolutionary Pennsylvania backcountry pp. 199-206

David A. Latzko

Revisiting Mexican migration in the Age of Mass Migration: New evidence from individual border crossings pp. 207-225

David Escamilla-Guerrero

Digital begriffsgeschichte: Tracing semantic change using word embeddings pp. 226-243

Melvin Wevers and Marijn Koolen

Volume 53, issue 3, 2020

Increasing returns to scale in the towns of early Tudor England pp. 147-165

Rudolf Cesaretti, José Lobo, Luis M. A. Bettencourt and Michael E. Smith

Routes as latent information—spatial analysis of historical pathways on the peripheries of the Victorian gold fields pp. 166-181

Richard J. MacNeill

Retracing Rivers and drawing swamps: Using a drawing tablet to reconstruct an historical hydroscape from army corps survey maps pp. 182-198

John Baeten and Rebecca Lave

Volume 53, issue 2, 2020

Introduction to special issues on historical record linking pp. 77-79

Kenneth M. Sylvester and J. David Hacker

Simple strategies for improving inference with linked data: a case study of the 1850–1930 IPUMS linked representative historical samples pp. 80-93

Martha Bailey, Connor Cole and Catherine Massey

Linking individuals across historical sources: A fully automated approach* pp. 94-111

Ran Abramitzky, Roy Mill and Santiago Perez

Record linkage in the Cape of Good Hope Panel pp. 112-129

Auke Rijpma, Jeanne Cilliers and Johan Fourie

Linking Scottish vital event records using family groups pp. 130-146

Özgür Akgün, Alan Dearle, Graham Kirby, Eilidh Garrett, Tom Dalton, Peter Christen, Chris Dibben and Lee Williamson

Volume 53, issue 1, 2020

Population density and the accuracy of the land valuations in the 1798 federal direct tax pp. 1-10

Frank W. Garmon Jr.

Reconstruction of regional and national population using intermittent census-type data: The case of Portugal, 1527–1864 pp. 11-27

Nuno Palma, Jaime Reis and Mengtian Zhang

Reconstruction of birth histories using children ever born and children surviving data from the 1900 and 1910 U.S. censuses pp. 28-52

J. David Hacker

How Many Household Formation Systems Were There in Historic Europe? A View Across 256 Regions Using Partitioning Clustering Methods pp. 53-76

Mikołaj Szołtysek and Bartosz Ogórek

Volume 52, issue 4, 2019

European naval diets in the sixteenth century: A quantitative method for comparative and nutritional analysis pp. 195-212

Patrick W. Hayes, J. A. Matthews, Bernard Allaire and Poul Holm

Urbanization and GDP per capita: New data and results for the Polish lands, 1790–1910 pp. 213-227

Maciej Bukowski, Piotr Koryś, Cecylia Leszczyńska, Maciej Tymiński and Nikolaus Wolf

A graph-based analysis for generating geographical context from a historical cadastre in Spain (17th and 18th centuries) pp. 228-243

Benito Zaragozí, Pablo Giménez-Font, Antonio Belda-Antolí and Alfredo Ramón-Morte

Sex ratios and life tables: Historical demography of the age at which women outnumber men in seven countries, 1850–2016 pp. 244-253

Mike Hollingshaus, Rebecca Utz, Ryan Schacht and Ken R. Smith

Volume 52, issue 3, 2019

Working with the public in historical data creation pp. 129-131

Humphrey Southall and Don Lafreniere

Public participatory historical GIS pp. 132-149

Don Lafreniere, Luke Weidner, Daniel Trepal, Sarah Fayen Scarlett, John Arnold, Robert Pastel and Ryan Williams

Citizen science through old maps: Volunteer motivations in the GB1900 gazetteer-building project pp. 150-163

Paula Aucott, Humphrey Southall and Carol Ekinsmyth

Developing a Flexible Platform for Crowdsourcing Historical Weather Records pp. 164-177

Renée Sieber and Victoria Slonosky

Creating an audience: Experiences from the Surinamese slave registers crowdsourcing project pp. 178-194

Cornelis W. Van Galen

Volume 52, issue 2, 2019

Data scopes for digital history research pp. 79-94

Rik Hoekstra and Marijn Koolen

Cartographically reconstructing surveys of community land grants in New Mexico to support historical research and political discourse pp. 95-109

Emanuel A. Storey

Creating the 1831 Canadian Census Database pp. 110-127

Isabelle Cherkesly, Lisa Dillon and Alain Gagnon

Volume 52, issue 1, 2019

Regional income inequality in France 1860–1954: Methods and findings pp. 1-14

Alfonso Díez-Minguela and M. Teresa Sanchis Llopis

Consumption of Chinese goods in southwestern Europe: a multi-relational database and the vicarious consumption theory as alternative model to the industrious revolution (eighteenth century) pp. 15-36

Manuel Perez-Garcia

Post-WWI military disarmament and interwar fascism in Sweden pp. 37-56

Heléne Berg, Matz Dahlberg and Kåre Vernby

A Quantitative Approach to Book-Printing in Sweden and Finland, 1640–1828 pp. 57-78

Mikko Tolonen, Leo Lahti, Hege Roivainen and Jani Marjanen

Volume 51, issue 4, 2018

After “it’s over over there”: Using record linkage to enable the reconstruction of World War I veterans’ demography from soldiers’ experiences to civilian populations pp. 203-229

Angela R. Cunningham

The Linkage of Microcensus Data and Vital Records: an Assessment of Results on Quebec Historical Population Data (1852–1911) pp. 230-245

Hélène Vézina, Marc St-Hilaire, Jean-Sébastien Bournival and Claude Bellavance

Linking the 1940 U.S. Census with modern data pp. 246-257

Catherine G. Massey, Katie R. Genadek, J. Trent Alexander, Todd K. Gardner and Amy O’Hara

Volume 51, issue 3, 2018

Large-scale content analysis of historical newspapers in the town of Gorizia 1873–1914 pp. 139-164

Nello Cristianini, Thomas Lansdall-Welfare and Gaetano Dato

Dacura: A new solution to data harvesting and knowledge extraction for the historical sciences pp. 165-174

Peter N. Peregrine, Rob Brennan, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, Pieter François, Peter Turchin and Harvey Whitehouse

More than trees: The challenges of creating a geodatabase to capture the complexity of forest history pp. 175-189

Péter Szabó, Silvie Suchánková, Lucie Křížová, Martin Kotačka, Martina Kvardová, Martin Macek, Jana Müllerová and Rudolf Brázdil

Chronicle of an early demise, surname extinction in the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries pp. 190-201

Joan Pau Jordà, Jose Ameijeiras-Alonso and Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora

Volume 51, issue 2, 2018

Revisiting the structuring effect of transportation infrastructure: An empirical approach with the French railway network from 1860 to 1910 pp. 65-81

Christophe Mimeur, François Queyroi, Arnaud Banos and Thomas Thévenin

The naming of orphans in France during World War One: A study of a nationwide cohort of pupilles de la Nation pp. 82-91

Nicolas Todd, Alain-Jacques Valleron and Pierre Bougnères

The Potsdam Grievance Statistics File. New data on quality of life and political participation for the German Democratic Republic 1970–1989 pp. 92-114

Fabian Class, Ulrich Kohler and Marian Krawietz

Regional GDP estimates for Sweden, 1571–1850 pp. 115-137

Kerstin Enflo and Anna Missiaia

Volume 51, issue 1, 2018

The weight of nineteenth century Mexicans in the Western United States pp. 1-12

Scott Alan Carson

Age heaping patterns in Mosaic data pp. 13-38

Mikołaj Szołtysek, R. Poniat and S. Gruber

Revisiting the Great Compression: Wage inequality in the United States, 1940–1960 pp. 39-48

Taylor Jaworski and Gregory Niemesh

Was Civil War surgery effective? pp. 49-61

Matthew Baker