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Quantitative History and Historical Numeracy

Quantitative History and Historical Numeracy. Margo Anderson History Department http://www.uwm.edu/~margo. Human Population Growth Timeline. Human Population Growth Timeline. Human Population Growth Timeline: Focusing in…. 1456: Gutenberg Bible (Invention of movable type)

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Quantitative History and Historical Numeracy

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  1. Quantitative History and Historical Numeracy Margo Anderson History Department http://www.uwm.edu/~margo

  2. Human Population Growth Timeline

  3. Human Population Growth Timeline

  4. Human Population Growth Timeline: Focusing in…. • 1456: Gutenberg Bible (Invention of movable type) • 1492 Columbus’ “Discovery” of the New World • ca 1500 Renaissance • 1517 Protestant Reformation • 1607: Founding of Virginia (Jamestown Colony) • 1620-30: Founding of Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay

  5. American Population Dynamics

  6. Growth of the U.S Population

  7. Growth in the Size of the House

  8. Admitting States to the Union

  9. The First Gerrymander, 1812

  10. United States Fertility, 1800-2000 (White Women)

  11. Homicide

  12. Homicide rates in the US, 1950-2000

  13. Circumstances

  14. Weapons and Circumstances

  15. Homicide in Europe over Time • Homicide rates per 100,000 population in English counties and cities, 1200–1970. From Ted Robert Gurr, "Historical Trends in Violent Crime: A Critical Review of the Evidence," Crime and Justice 3 (1981): 313.

  16. Homicide in Europe • Long-term homicide rates per 100,000 population in Scandinavia and England, North and South. Calculated from Manuel Eisner, "Modernization, Self-Control and Lethal Violence: The Long-Term Dynamics of European Homicide Rates in Theoretical Perspective," British Journal of Criminology 41 (2001): 618–638.

  17. Murder Rates in NYC and Los Angeles, 1800-2000

  18. American and European Murder Rates

  19. Iraq War Civilian Deaths from Violence

  20. US Military Iraq War Deaths, 2003-2008

  21. Coalition Deaths, 2003-2010

  22. To learn more… • Take History 595, Quantitative Analysis of Historical Data • Read Numbers! • Browse www.census.gov or United Nations website, for example, http://www.unfpa.org/swp/ or http://esa.un.org/unpp/ • When you read a “quantitative” assessment, ask what it really means…

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