Sejarah Kuantitatif: Telaah Kritis tentang Teori dan Sejarah Abad XX

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The term ‘quatitative history’ covers a range of methodologies and theoretical
bases, linked by their reliance on numerical data. Allmost all historical writing
involves quantification, however, whether implicit or explicit. Some strands of
quantitative history are not new fenomena. Malthus, for example, produced his
essay on population history in 1798, and economic history gained in importance
from the mid-nineteenth century, partly due to the influence of Marx. During the
twentieth century, historians have increasingly wanted to study the mass of
people in the past rather than a few well-documented individuals. Frequently we
need to use quantitative methods to do so, thereby reducing a large amount of
data to manageable proportion.