Scientific History and Experimental History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3449547 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Randolph Roth (0000-0001-7662-3317, American Association for the Advancement of Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 443-458 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/jinh_a_00425 |
| OpenAlex | W2133556731 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
The promise of scientific history and scientifically informed history is more modest today than it was in the nineteenth century, when a number of intellectuals hoped to transform history into a scientific mode of inquiry that would unite the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and reveal profound truths about human nature and destiny. But Edmund Russell in Evolutionary History and Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson in Natural Experiments of History demonstrate that historians can write interdisciplinary, comparative analyses using the strategies of nonexperimental natural science to search for deep patterns in human behavior and for correlates to those patterns that can lead to a better, though not infallible, understanding of historical causality
Archaeology · Biology · Causality (physics) · Destiny (ISS module) · Epistemology · History of science · Human science · Natural (archaeology) · Natural history · Natural science · Political history · Political science · Quantitative history · Social science · Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Ecology · Engineering · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
The Navigation of Feeling
The Land Scape of History
The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades
History, Institutions, and Economic Performance
Making It Count
The Comparative Method
A Dreadful Childhood
From Slave South to New South
Biology and the Deep History of Homicide
Logics of History
Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons
States and Social Revolutions
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |