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Article: Understanding Quantitative History.
- Article from:
- Journal of Higher Education
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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Contemporary quantitative history originated at the turn of the century with the writings of Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles A. Beard. Turner used census data to support the frontier thesis |33~. Later, Beard employed economic data to reveal a republican rationale for the United States Constitution |4~. While other early twentieth-century American professional historians generally ignored this method, two French historians, Marc Bloch and Lucien Lebvre at the University of Strasbourg, collaborated during the late 1920s to demonstrate the effectiveness of social science methods within historical investigations. Determined to broaden the scope of their discipline in the ...
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