Quantitative Methods or Quantum Meruit? Tactics for Early American Legal History

Hindus, Michael Stephen; Jones, Douglas Lamar

doi:10.1080/01615440.1980.9955247

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“…Together, these studies suggest that court records merit closer attention in historical research on crime. Although this reflects a sentiment also expressed by others (Beattie 1972;Hindus and Jones 1980), no study has examined the utility of indictment and conviction statistics available from nineteenthcentury U.S. courts.…”

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Evaluating Court Statistics as a Data Source for Studying Nineteenth-Century Crime

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1993

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdiscipli

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Evaluating Court Statistics as a Data Source for Studying Nineteenth-Century Crime

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1993

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“…Elsewhere the author laid out guidelines for the quantification of court records. 13 More important here, he approaches his subject in a thoroughly quantitative way. His two variables are the treatment of crime in post-revolutionary Massachusetts and South Carolina.…”

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Counting crime in premodern England and America: A review essay

Hoffer

1981

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Early American Historiography and Social Science History

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Despite the emergence of social science history, the profession remains organized around the study of periods in the history of societies. Departments of history still structure their curricula mainly along national and temporal lines, and the same principle of socialization thereby defines most academic positions (Darnton, 1980). To judge by the sessions of the annual meetings of the Social Science History Association (SSHA), those sympathetic with that orientation focus on topics, approaches, and methodologies. Only one association network, that for the study of Asia, mentions a locale in its title, and none specifies a particular time period. This article will examine the findings and implications of social science history for one well-established national/period field, that of early American history.

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Quantitative Methods or Quantum Meruit? Tactics for Early American Legal History

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Evaluating Court Statistics as a Data Source for Studying Nineteenth-Century Crime

Evaluating Court Statistics as a Data Source for Studying Nineteenth-Century Crime

Counting crime in premodern England and America: A review essay

Early American Historiography and Social Science History

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