Full Description
This book presents a state-of-the-art picture of advances in social network research for economic, business, and financial historians. It showcases recent advances in the methodology and application of social network analysis to historical research and draws out the unique benefits for economic history and related fields.
Social network analysis is increasingly understood to be an important part of historical research, allowing researchers to balance qualitative investigation with rigorous quantitative techniques. Through a global set of case studies spanning ancient, medieval, early modern and modern history, this edited volume demonstrates the interpretative potential of various SNA approaches to different sets of historical data. The chapters contribute to methodological understanding of SNA in economic history, as well as showing through the case studies how network analysis can decode complex social and economic interactions over time, making visible those relational patterns that were invisible to contemporary historical actors. This cutting-edge resource will be appeal widely to academics in economic, business and financial history, as well as statistics researchers and social scientists looking to strengthen their quantitative research skills.
Contents
Introduction.- Part I Thinking in Networks: Approaches to Economic, Business, and Financial History.- Decoding Complex Socio-Economic Interactions in History through Social Network Analysis.- Improving Business History through Social Network Analysis and data.- Webs of Money: Social Network Analysis and Financial History.- Network-Based Bibliometric Analysis in Economic History.- Part II Connecting the Past: Case-Based Approaches to Networks in Economic History.- II.1 Threads of Antiquity: Economic and Cultural Networks Across the Mediterranean.- Trade and Cultural Transmission in lived spaces from central Italy from the Final Bronze Age to the Archaic Period (1100-500 BC): an Exploratory Network Analysis.- Exploring pottery distributions and regional economies through network analysis and GIS: Kalapodi and its region in the Roman period as a case study.- Maritime Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Quantitative Analysis of Shipwreck Data from the Hellenistic Period through Late Antiquity (4th Century BCE - 7th Century CE).- II.2 Forging Markets: Credit, Networks, and Intermediation in Pre-Modern Europe.- Credit Networks in the 14th-century rural countryside of Tyrol. Importance and Functioning.- Forced Loans and Lenders' Networks in Seville: Coercion, Credit, and the Origins of a Proto-Financial Market (1523-1563) .- Relational Capital, Weak Ties, and Economic Intermediation. The Global Network built by Jerónimo de Cataño (1536-1589).- High Finance Networks in Renaissance Florence.- II.3 Networks of Influence: Business, Trust, and Governance Across Borders and Centuries in the Contemporary age.- Weaving Trust: Notaries and Credit Market (Networks) in 19th century Milan.- Studying insularity through business networks: the isle of Procida in 19th-century South of Italy.- Not a destiny. National corporate networks compared: Argentina and Italy 1913-2010.- Fellowship Society Members in Corporate Boards: Evidence from the Netherlands in the 20th Century.
