Recently added articles from Historical Methods:
Health, wealth, and inequality: a contribution to the debate about the relationship between inequality and health.(Evidence Matters)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Abstract. The relationship between material inequality and health is the subject of considerable debate and may depend on how the relationship is defined. The author uses stature as a measure for cumulative health outcomes to illustrate that although there was an inverse relationship ...
Introduction: terrains of conflict and the landscape of critique.
Sep 22, 2008 ... As the German methodenstreit of the last decade or so of the nineteenth century demonstrate, methodological debates about how history and the social sciences ought to be conducted are as old as the disciplines themselves. Terrains of conflict shift--objectivism versus subjectivism or ...
The real network society.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Paul D. McLean. The Art of the Network: Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. Fifteenth-century Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance, was a fascinatingly complex culture in which people seem to have excelled at ...
How congress learned to govern.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Kimberly S. Johnson. Governing the American State: Congress and the New Federalism, 1877-1929. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. During the first century of its existence, the American state was famously weak. The founders created a framework of divided powers and ...
Just getting by in bad times ... and good.(Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Susan Porter Benson. Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. Washing machines, phonographs, vacuum cleaners, automobiles, radios, packaged foods, and store-bought clothes: the 1920s and 1930s ...
Civil rights doctrine reconsidered.(The Lost Promise of Civil Rights)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Risa L. Goluboff. The Lost Promise of Civil Rights. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Over the past two decades, scholars working primarily in the fields of African American studies and labor history have given rise to the notion of a "long civil fights movement," ...
Case history.
Sep 22, 2008; ... John Gerring. Case Study Research: Principles and Practices. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. In the first week of May 1963, hundreds of African American students left the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and marched through the downtown toward ...
Scandalizing science?(Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Barbara Herrnstein Smith. Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Scandals, Scandals The main title of Barbara Herrnstein Smith's Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human is intriguing. Although it sounds ...
Historical GIS: new ways of doing history.(Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Anne Kelly Knowles, ed. Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, 2008. Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship, the most recent volume edited by Anne Kelly ...
Counterfactual causality, empirical Research, and the role of theory in the social sciences.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Stephen L. Morgan and Christopher Winship. Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Are Catholic schools more effective than public schools in teaching mathematics to equivalent ...