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The power of networks : prospects of historical network research / Florian Kerschbaumer, Linda von Keyserlingk, Martin Stark and Martin Düring.

"The Power of Networks describes a typology of network-based research practices in the historical disciplines, ranging from the use of quantitative network analysis in cultural, economic, social or political history or religious studies, to novel approaches in the Digital Humanities. Network da...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Kerschbaumer, Florian (Editor), Keyserlingk, Linde von (Editor), Stark, Martin, 1975- (Editor), Düring, Marten (Editor)
Other title:Prospects of historical network research.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Digital research in the arts and humanities.
Subjects:
Social sciences > Network analysis.
Social networks > Research > Methodology.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2.(Re-)construction of historical networks and their analysis. 2.1. Networking the res publica: Social Network Analysis and Republican Rome / Christian Rollinger
  • 2.2. Community detection and structural balance: network analytical modelling of political structures and actions in the Middle Ages / Robert Gramsch-Stehfest
  • 2.3. The Value of Network Analysis in Historical Sociology: Economic and Social Relations in Medieval Lübeck / Bernd Wurpts
  • 2.4. Flemish Merchant Networks in Early Modern Seville: Approaches, Comparisons, and Methodical Considerations / Eberhard Crailsheim
  • 2.5. Kinship Networks in North Western German Rural Society (18th/19th Centuries) / Christine Fertig
  • 2.6. Mobility and Movements in Intellectual History: a Social Network Approach / Christophe Verbruggen, Hans Blomme, Thomas D'Haeninck
  • 3. Computational extraction of network data from large corpora. 3.1. Utilizing Historical Network Analysis on Meta-data to Model East German Foreign Intelligence Cycle in the Baltic Sea Region 1975-89 / Kimmo Elo
  • 3.2. Social and semantic network analysis in the study of religions / Frederik Elwert
  • 4. Infrastructures for data collection and exploration. 4.1. Deep Networks as Associative Interfaces to Historical Research / Charles van den Heuvel, Ingeborg van Vugt, Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels
  • 4.2. Networks as Gateways. Gleanings from Applications for the Exploration of Historical Data / Marten Düring
  • 5. Outlook. 5.1. Historical Network Research, Digital History, and Digital Humanities / Malte Rehbein.

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