Further reading

For additional background on quantification in history, check the texts below:

• Graham, Shawn, Milligan, Ian, Weingart, Scott and Martin, Kim (2022), The joys of big data for historians, in Exploring Big Historical Data. The Historians Macroscope (World Scientific; 2nd Edition), pp. 1-34.

• Fourie, Johan (2023), Quantitative history and uncharted people, in Quantitative history and uncharted people. Case studies from the South African Past (Bloomsbury), pp. 1-32.

• Lemercier, Claire and Zalc, Claire (2021), Back to the sources. Practicing and teaching quantitative history in the 2020s, Capitalism. A Journal of History and Economics, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 473-508.

• Blaxill, Luke (2023), Why do historians ignore digital analysis. Bring on the Luddites, The Political Quarterly, vol. 94, no. 2, pp. 279-289.

• Jockers, Matthew L. (2013), Macroanalysis. Foundation, in Macroanalysis. Digital Methods and Literary History (University of Illinois Press), pp. 3-32.

See also the following blogposts:

• Mullen, Lincoln: Behind, ahead (March 9, 2026).