Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas

"What would the history of ideas look like if we were able to read the entire archive of printed material of a historical period? This book explains how computational approaches to text mining can substantially increase the power of our understanding of ideas in history"--

Part I. Computational Methodologies for the History of Ideas: 1. Introduction Peter de Bolla; 2. Distributional Concept Analysis and the Digital History of Ideas Peter de Bolla, Ewan Jones, Paul Nulty, Gabriel Recchia and John Regan; 3. Operationalizing Conceptual Structure Paul Nulty; Part II. Case Studies in the Digital History of Ideas: 4. The Idea of Liberty, 1600-1800 Peter de Bolla, Ewan Jones, Paul Nulty, Gabriel Recchia and John Regan; 5. The Idea of Government in the British Eighteenth Century Peter de Bolla, Ewan Jones, Paul Nulty, Gabriel Recchia and John Regan; 6. Republicanism in the Founding of America Peter de Bolla; 7. Enlightenment Entanglements of Improvement and Growth Peter de Bolla, Ryan Heuser and Mark Algee-Hewitt; 8. The Idea of Commercial Society: Changing Contexts and Scales John Regan; 9. The Age of Irritability Ewan Jones and Natalie Roxburgh; 10. On Bubbles and Bubbling: The Idea of 'The South Sea Bubble' Claire Wilkinson; 11. Embedded Ideas: Revolutionary Theory and Political Science in the Eighteenth Century Mark Algee-Hewitt; 12. Computing Koselleck: Modeling Semantic Revolutions, 1720-1960 Ryan Heuser.