international history
digital humanities / digital history
(digital) memory studies
history in an era of networks, data and cognitive delegation
History as a discipline and historian evolve within a precise social, political, technological context.
The rise of computing, networks and data since 1945.
1959 (dealing with too much data): François Furet and Adeline Daumard. ‘Méthodes de l’Histoire sociale: les Archives notariales et la Mécanographie’. Annales ESC, 14(4).
1961 (cross-referencing two datasets): Paul Garelli and Jean-Claude Gardin. ‘Étude Par Ordinateurs Des Établissements Assyriens En Cappadoce’. Annales ESC, 16(5).
Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor, and Kenneth Cukier. Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
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for non-French examples:
Historian looking at a see of data.
Moretti, Franco. Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History. Verso, 2007.
Towards scalable reading.
Clavert, Frédéric, and Andreas Fickers. ‘On Pyramids, Prisms, and Scalable Reading’. Journal of Digital History, no. jdh001, 2021.
The case of digitized Newspapers
Swiss project (EPFL, Université de Lausanne, University of Zürich) with Luxemburgish partnership (C2DH)
Bunout, Estelle, et al., eds. Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians? Tools, Methodology, Epistemology, and the Changing Practices of Writing History in the Context of Historical Newspapers Mass Digitization. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022.