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Histoire & Mesure explores the history of statistics and measurement practices, from antique surveying or medieval gauging to contemporary scientific instruments. It also publishes papers using statistical, formal or quantitative methods as a tool for historical research, whatever the period and theme studied. Far from being limited to economic or demographic history, the journal has always been open to cultural and political history, archeology, etc. Refusing to isolate methodology from history, it considers that a reflection on the construction of quantitative tools helps to make a better use of them.

Journal supported by the Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (CNRS).

Latest issue
XXXIX-2 | 2024
Construire des bases de données

Building Databases

Thanks to recent methodological advances in the social sciences, historians can now adopt an individualized and multidimensional approach to players and their conduct over time, the aim being to analyse the complex processes and sequences of behaviour developed progressively by each actor through repeated trial and error. Investigations of this kind exploit computerized databases to transform a mass of information from multiple sources into usable data. The articles in this issue describe this operation of crucial importance, in both epistemological and empirical terms, for history and the social sciences.

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