Numbers Game or Scientific History? Exactitude and Justice in 1970s Cliometrics and in Digital History Today.

By the time of the publication of Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman's Time on the Cross in 1974, quantitative history had become an important, yet controversial, trend around the globe. Time on the Cross , an economic history of slavery in the American South, prompted a fierce debate among his...

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Published in:	History of Humanities Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 133 - 147
Main Author:	von Schöning, Antonia
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press Fall2022
Subjects:	Statistical methods in information science Digital humanities Economic history United States history Antislavery movements Digital learning
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost