Week 11

Network Maps

READINGS

1. Dan Edelstein, Paula Findlen, Giovanna Ceserani, Caroline Winterer, and Nicole Coleman, “Historical Research in a Digital Age: Reflections from the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project,” The American Historical Review 122, no. 2 (April 1, 2017): 400–424.
2. Leo Barleta, “Spatial Genealogies: Mobility, Settlement, and Empire-Building in the Brazilian Backlands, 1650-1800,” Journal of Social History, 54, no. 4 (2021): 1064–1090 – annotated version in Models of Argument-Driven Digital History.
3. Kimmo Elo, “Geospatial Social Networks of East German Opposition (1975-1989/90),” Journal of Historical Network Research 2, no. 1 (December 3, 2018): 143–65.
4. Ryan Horne, “Digital Tools and Ancient Empires: Using Network Analysis and Geographic Information Systems to Study Imperial Networks in Hellenistic Anatolia,” Journal of World History 32, 2 (2021): 321-343.

SUGGESTED PROJECTS

• Sinja Clavadetscher, Stefanie Mahrer, and Stefanie Salvisberg, “Forced Academic Migration,” in  Jewish Studies in the Digital Age, ed Gerben Zaagsma, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Miriam Rürup, Michelle Margolis, and Amalia S. Levi (De Gruyter, 2022).  
• Clare Anderson, “Transnational Histories of Penal Transportation: Punishment, Labour and Governance in the British Imperial World, 1788–1939.” Australian Historical Studies 47, no. 3 (September 2016): 381–97.
• Routes (review both):
  • al-Turayya Project
  • The Merchant Fleet of Late Medieval and Tudor England, 1400-1580
• People (review both)
  • Kindred Britain (focus on the maps)
    • Notes on Kindred Britain
    • Kindred Britain 2.0: Kindred London
  • In the Same Boats

SUGGESTED TOOL: Palladio

• Palladio
• Miriam Posner, “Getting started with Palladio”