2 septembre 2022
Claire Lemercier et al., « History by numbers », HAL-SHS : histoire, ID : 10670/1.2f69lb
Is history a matter of individual agency and action, or of finding and quantifying underpinning structures and patterns? Sketching the history of the numbers wars might be a way to avoid, once again, pitting a hard, scientific, male, simplistic, materialistic quantification against an ambiguous, painstaking, female, complex, humanistic history – a way towards less boring books and articles.