HIST 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Robert Fogel, Pie Chart, Time Series
15 Sep 2016
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The quantification and use of numbers in history has seen significant increase following wwii. The study of aggregates is used a lot to write history about the people/objects/voices whose experiences as a collective aren"t recorded in the dominant narrative ("history from bellow") We know how history was experienced from "the top" from rulers and kings and the powerful but we know much less about the agricultural labourers and the peasants etc. ) Economic history is interested in how resources were distributed in history / business history is interested in how the business firm affected and interacted within history. Both of these initially were the only studies that used numbers like we use numbers and data now in history. Using empirical methods in survey methods when looking at the past. We must be careful to balance narrative history with quantifiable history so neither is lost to the influence of the other - both are important.
