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Marc Widdowson

An introduction to theoretical history

Marc Widdowson

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English
Amarna Ltd
16 January 2024
Historiography
The last few decades have seen the emergence of theoretical history as an academic discipline characterised by conferences, journals, and an international community of researchers. It is about a scientific search for patterns in history, using quantitative data and formal, often mathematical models to understand the past, interpret the present and shape the future. This book is a comprehensive survey of the new discipline's themes and participants, including its early roots. The first two chapters define the scope of theoretical history and present some background knowledge and assumptions. This is followed by a review of mathematical methods, covering topics like calculus, network theory, statistics, and time-series analysis. Three chapters cover respectively socio-cultural, economic-technological, and military-political processes in history. Cities and urbanism, historical cycles such as in war and the economy, and the impact of the environment on social change also each have their own chapter. The final chapter provides a guide to data sources. There is an index and bibliography.
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Imprint:   Amarna Ltd
Dimensions:   Height: 297mm,  Width: 210mm,  Spine: 31mm
Weight:   1.406kg
ISBN:   9781902219073
ISBN 10:   1902219074
Pages:   596
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Marc Widdowson is a researcher in the defence sector who has been bringing theoretical history perspectives to challenges like forecasting overseas political instability for twenty five years. He combines strengths in mathematics and humanities, with postgraduate degrees in physics, social anthropology and history. Besides reports for government clients, he has published a number of academic papers in the area, and presents videos providing theoretical history-based analysis of topical issues on YouTube. He is British and lives in the East Midlands.

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