Journal of Interdisciplinary History, LIII:1 (Estate, 2022), 117–141. Ingeborg van Vugt Networking in the Republic of Letters: Magliabechi and the Dutch Republic Recent years have seen an increase in the use of network analysis as a method for analyzing large data sets of correspondence within the Repub- lic of Letters. The Republic of Letters was the self-proclaimed community of scholars that became popular across Europe

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, LIII:1 (Estate, 2022), 89–115. Outi Autti and Saara Intonen The Recognition of War Refugees: Lapland, Love, and Care In 1944, more than 50,000 residents of Finnish Lapland were evacuated to Sweden. This article studies how these refugees of the Lapland War (1944–1945) experienced their rela- tions with local people in their host communities. It explores the evacuees’ reception on individual and

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, LII:4 (Primavera, 2022), 537–564. Blanca Sánchez-Alonso and Carlos Santiago-Caballero Spain’s Loss of Human Capital after the Civil War: Spanish Refugees in Mexico Forced migrations, exiles, and genocides adversely affect millions of people. The literature stresses the obvious differences between forced and voluntary migration. Refugees do not choose their country of destination or the time when they move; refugees feel the “push

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, LII:4 (Primavera, 2022), 513–536. Matteo Pompermaier Credit and Poverty in Early Modern Venice Credit is more than a simple exchange of money with a promise of a future repayment. Muldrew has referred to it as a “currency of rep- utation,” a means by which trust is communicated to others. It is an integral part of human relations, so difficult to study

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, LII:3 (Inverno, 2022), 401–421. Sukriti Issar Property, Custom, and Religion in Early Nineteenth-Century Bombay After the fire of 1803 in Bombay, landowners were asked to lease or sell their lands to people who would be evicted when the space around the town walls was cleared. Sunkersett Baboolsett, when asked to lease his oart or planta- tion at Girgaum, said that he

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, LII:3 (Inverno, 2022), 351–382. Jordi Domènech and Juan Jesús Fernández Survival in a Nazi Concentration Camp: The Spanish Prisoners of Mauthausen The fate of Spanish deportees at the Mauthausen Nazi concentration camp exemplifies the role of large historical forces in shaping individual destinies, in this case tragically. The typical prisoner at Mauthausen was a man exiled in France at the end

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, LII:2 (Autumn, 2021), 155–176. Valerie Shrimplin and Channa N. Jayasena Was Henry VIII Infertile? Miscarriages and Male Infertility in Tudor England Societies throughout the world have traditionally viewed the production of healthy chil- dren as the responsibility of women. Such was evidently the view of King Henry VIII (1491–1547, Figura 1) who clearly blamed his wives for his lack of a

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, l:4 (Primavera, 2020), 567–586. The 50th Year: Special Essay 11 Peter Burke Art and History, 1969–2019 This article discusses a half- century of encounters between art historians and generalist historians, and their consequences for the study of art. On the history side, scholars such as Maurice Agulhon, Patrick Boucheron, Georges Duby (an amateur painter), Carlo Ginzburg (a painter in his youth),

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, l:4 (Primavera, 2020), 547–566. Anne E. C. McCants Economic History and the Historians The 50th Year: Special Essay 10 A good economist “must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher— in some degree. Lui [sic] must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought.

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, l:4 (Primavera, 2020), 517–545. The 50th Year: Special Essay 9 Myron P. Gutmann Quantifying Interdisciplinary History: The Record of (Nearly) Fifty Years The Journal of Interdisciplinary History began publication in 1970, after the founding of quantitative history. That transformation had already been underway for nearly two de- cades, led by an early generation of quantitative political historians; by the Annales school

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, l:4 (Primavera, 2020), 495–515. The 50th Year: Special Essay 8 E. Anthony Wrigley The Interplay of Demographic, Economic, and Social History The wealth of source material for various aspects of the demographic, economic, and social history of England over the past half millennium makes it possible to describe, for ex- ample, urban growth and related changes in occupational structure, or changes

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, l:3 (Inverno, 2020), 363–381. The 50th Year: Special Essay 7 Steven Ruggles and Diana L. Magnuson The History of Quantification in History: The JIH as a Case Study The use of quantitative methods in leading historical journals increased dramatically in the 1960s and declined sharply after the mid-1980s. The JIH is an invaluable source for analysis of the boom and bust

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, l:3 (Inverno, 2020), 325–362. The 50th Year: Special Essay 6 George C. Alter The Evolution of Models in Historical Demography In its first issue, the JIH published Goubert’s account of a new approach to historical demography that origi- nated in France in the 1950s. This “demographic revolution” brought together historians, statisticians, and demographers who used new methods to create a “scientific

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, l:2 (Autumn, 2019), 237–264. Lisbeth Rodrigues Debt Litigation and the Performance of Law Courts in Eighteenth-Century Portugal Ever since the publication of North’s seminal work, scholars have recognized the fundamental role played by institutions—both formal and informal—in relation to economic growth, arguing that their pri- mary goal is to reduce uncertainty and therefore transaction costs. Recent years have witnessed a flurry

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, l:2 (Autumn, 2019), 213–236. The 50th Year: Special Essay 5 Steven A. Epstein Environmental History in the JIH, 1970–2020 Environmental history has been defined as the intersection be- tween nature and culture, combining human societies and their ecologies, and their different processes of change, in order to illuminate their inextricable stories. Natural history was already a venerable subject before modernity. In

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, l:2 (Autumn, 2019), 187–212. The 50th Year: Special Essay 5 Peter A. Coclanis Field Notes: Agricultural History’s New Plot Agricultural history has come a long way in recent decades, bearing little resemblance to the field at the time when The Journal of Interdisciplinary History published its first issue in 1970. Inoltre, after decades of decline, this venerable field has become hot

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, l:2 (Autumn, 2019), 171–185. The 50th Year: Special Essay 3 Anne Hardy The Under-Appreciated Rodent: Harbingers of Plague From the Middle Ages to the Twenty- First Century The social and interdisciplinary history of morbidity and mortality, of death and disease, is a relatively re- cent phenomenon, emerging in the 1970s with the Bulletin of the Social History of Medicine (1970)—reborn as

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, l:1 (Estate, 2019), 91–111. Myles Lavan Epistemic Uncertainty, Subjective Probability, and Ancient History Periods from which few data survive pose a major challenge for history in the quantitative mode. Many important historical quantities can be estimated only on the basis of sparse and disparate information. Per esempio, we do not have any census data for the population of the Roman Empire