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List of contents
1. Introduction
Part I: (Re-)construction of historical networks and their analysis
- Networking the Res Publica. Social Network Analysis and the Republican Rome
- Community detection and structural balance: network analytical modelling of political structures and actions in the Middle Ages
- The Value of Network Analysis in Historical Sociology: Economic and Social Relations in Medieval
in Medieval Lübeck
4. Flemish Merchant Networks in Early Modern Seville. Approaches, Comparisons, and Methodical Considerations
5. Kinship Networks in Northwestern German Rural Society (18th/19th Centuries)
6. Mobility and Movements in Intellectual History: a Social Network Approach
3. Computational extraction of network data from large corpora - Utilizing Historical Network Analysis on Meta-data to Model East German Foreign Intelligence Cycle in the Baltic Sea Region 1975-1989
- Social and semantic network analysis in the study of religions
4. Infrastructures for data collection and exploration
- Deep Networks as Associative Interfaces to Historical Research
- Networks as Gateways. Gleanings from Applications for the Exploration of Historical Data
5. Outlook
- Historical Network Research, Digital History, and Digital Humanities
About the author
Florian Kerschbaumer is Project Manager at the Danube University Krems and Lecturer at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.
Linda von Keyserlingk-Rehbein is Curator and Head of the Document Department in the Military History Museum, Dresden, Germany.
Martin Stark is Senior Researcher at the ILS- Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Dortmund, Germany.
Marten Düring is Assistant Professor/Senior Research Scientist at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg.
Summary
The Power of Networks describes a typology of network-based research practices in the historical disciplines, ranging from the use of quantitative network analysis in cultural, economic, social or political history or religious studies, to novel approaches in the Digital Humanities.
