Scientific History

"Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a re-engagement with the natural sciences. We are experiencing a "scientific turn" in the first decades of the twenty-first century, and against this backdrop, Elena Aronova argues that there was a "scientific turn" in history at every turn, for at least a century. Bigger History maps out the submerged history of historians' continuous engagement with the methods, tools, and values of the natural sciences by examining several waves of experimentation with the scale of history and its method, each of which surged highest at perceived times of trouble, from the crisis-ridden decades around 1900 to the ruptures of the Cold War"--