Databases In Historical Research

Author : Tiago Luís Gil
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030782417
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Make a Database in Historical Studies written by Tiago Luís Gil and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a greatly supplemented translation from Portuguese, originally published in 2015. It discusses the most appropriate ways to create databases for research on history and other humanities, including an extensive debate about the usages that historians have made of computing since the 1950s. It has four chapters: the first is dedicated to theoretical and methodical questions about the usage of databases in history; the second is about technical issues; the third presents the concept of research engineering (how to improve research in groups); the last is about the construction of databases. The author states that the use of technology in research in history and humanities should be preceded and mediated by theories and methods which deal with these disciplines and not by technical issues. The historian must know how to think “correctly” in order to use the technological tools in an autonomous way. The book provides a background, demonstrating how theory, methodology, and technique are always articulated in historical research, and will appeal to history students and researchers.

Author : Charles Harvey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349243922
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Databases in Historical Research written by Charles Harvey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1995-12-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook builds knowledge progressively and sympathetically, from first principles to advanced topics. The authors explain how to take a project from the specification stage to completion, and offer guidance on choice of approach, techniques, hardware and software. Key ideas are presented in a readily understandable form through the use of diagrams and summary boxes, and the text is brought to life through the use of case studies. An ideal handbook for the undergraduate, postgraduate and professional historian embarking on a dissertation or historical research.

Author : Mark Casson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317963644
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Large Databases in Economic History written by Mark Casson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Big data’ is now readily available to economic historians, thanks to the digitisation of primary sources, collaborative research linking different data sets, and the publication of databases on the internet. Key economic indicators, such as the consumer price index, can be tracked over long periods, and qualitative information, such as land use, can be converted to a quantitative form. In order to fully exploit these innovations it is necessary to use sophisticated statistical techniques to reveal the patterns hidden in datasets, and this book shows how this can be done. A distinguished group of economic historians have teamed up with younger researchers to pilot the application of new techniques to ‘big data’. Topics addressed in this volume include prices and the standard of living, money supply, credit markets, land values and land use, transport, technological innovation, and business networks. The research spans the medieval, early modern and modern periods. Research methods include simultaneous equation systems, stochastic trends and discrete choice modelling. This book is essential reading for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in business, economic and social history. The case studies will also appeal to historical geographers and applied econometricians.

Author : Tiago Luís Gil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030782429
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Make a Database in Historical Studies written by Tiago Luís Gil and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a greatly supplemented translation from Portuguese, originally published in 2015. It discusses the most appropriate ways to create databases for research on history and other humanities, including an extensive debate about the usages that historians have made of computing since the 1950s. It has four chapters: the first is dedicated to theoretical and methodical questions about the usage of databases in history; the second is about technical issues; the third presents the concept of research engineering (how to improve research in groups); the last is about the construction of databases. The author states that the use of technology in research in history and humanities should be preceded and mediated by theories and methods which deal with these disciplines and not by technical issues. The historian must know how to think "correctly" in order to use the technological tools in an autonomous way. The book provides a background, demonstrating how theory, methodology, and technique are always articulated in historical research, and will appeal to history students and researchers.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Author : Zachary Schrag
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691215480
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Princeton Guide to Historical Research written by Zachary Schrag and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first century The Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries. Zachary Schrag begins by explaining how to ask good questions and then guides readers step-by-step through all phases of historical research, from narrowing a topic and locating sources to taking notes, crafting a narrative, and connecting one's work to existing scholarship. He shows how researchers extract knowledge from the widest range of sources, such as government documents, newspapers, unpublished manuscripts, images, interviews, and datasets. He demonstrates how to use archives and libraries, read sources critically, present claims supported by evidence, tell compelling stories, and much more. Featuring a wealth of examples that illustrate the methods used by seasoned experts, The Princeton Guide to Historical Research reveals that, however varied the subject matter and sources, historians share basic tools in the quest to understand people and the choices they made. Offers practical step-by-step guidance on how to do historical research, taking readers from initial questions to final publication Connects new digital technologies to the traditional skills of the historian Draws on hundreds of examples from a broad range of historical topics and approaches Shares tips for researchers at every skill level

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Total Pages : 808 pages
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Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.

Author : Association for History and Computing. International Conference
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
ISBN 13 : 9789065501424
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structures and Contingencies in Computerized Historical Research written by Association for History and Computing. International Conference and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. This book was released on 1995 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Manfred Thaller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book Databases and information management systems as tools for historical research written by Manfred Thaller and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Duane R. Bogenschneider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
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