Papers by P. Baskerville
Australian Historical Studies
Lives in Transition offers an innovative and useful discussion of data and methods for quantitati... more Lives in Transition offers an innovative and useful discussion of data and methods for quantitative longitudinal historical research. After a helpful introduction, it includes three chapters about international migration, four about mobility in rural areas, two about mobility in urban areas, and three about ethnic groups during World War I. The chapters focus on four countries. New Zealand and Australia each receive a chapter; the United States receives two and Canada seven. Most of the analysis pertains to the second half of the 1800s, although two of the chapters concentrate on the first half of the 1800s and three deal with the early 1900s. The book presents an excellent opportunity to discuss issues related to data collection and statistical analysis. This review essay first surveys various types of quantitative life-course data and how the chapters in this volume exemplify the collection, linkage, and analysis of such data before exploring the statistical analysis of quantitative longitudinal data.
For scholars and policy makers the central question of our era is how best to develop, understand... more For scholars and policy makers the central question of our era is how best to develop, understand and make use of abundant data. How, in other words, can we best turn information into knowledge? We argue that within the discipline of history and the humanities more generally mastering the challenge of data abundance requires a paradigm shift in the way research is conducted and in the tools required to carry out such research. a) New tools are necessary to make sense of digital media. b) Beside the traditional image of the lone humanist scholar must be put the notion of a collaboratory, a laboratory without walls, to which interdisciplinary teams or networks contribute. c) The resultant methods and research output must be seen as publically accessible goods that can be built on by other scholarly innovators. d) General civic awareness implies knowledge of past developments and how those processes affect and condition present activities and future directions. We focus on routinely generated historical digital data, an important component of the Nation's data infrastructure. We examine four sectors: on-line genealogy sites; on-line heritage sites; academic research using routinely generated quantitative data; the teaching of quantitative methods in university classrooms; and, policy making at the state level. A Knowledge Report on the Digital Economy for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, December 1 2010
Enterprise and Society, 2009
The History of the Family, 1999
Contemporary debates about "family crisis" has led to a resurgence of interest in family history ... more Contemporary debates about "family crisis" has led to a resurgence of interest in family history in Canada. The field builds on the strong tradition of demographic history in Quebec, and on historical sociology, historical geography, ethnohistory, and recent developments in cultural history. Recent projects in both Quebec and English Canada have accepted the challenge of international comparative analysis.
Social Science History, 2001
Journal of Family History, 2001
Necplus
fermer. NecPlus Online. Skip to content. Volume 65; Issue 01 - Mar 2010; Cité dans les articles (... more fermer. NecPlus Online. Skip to content. Volume 65; Issue 01 - Mar 2010; Cité dans les articles (CrossRef); Cité dans les articles (Google Scholar); Cité dans les articles (Necplus); Alerte citation; Aller au résumé suivant; Aller au résumé ...
Canadian Historical Review, 1971
Canadian Historical Review, 1999
... Page 4. 194 The Canadian Historical Review (London: Cornell University Press 1982); Paulette ... more ... Page 4. 194 The Canadian Historical Review (London: Cornell University Press 1982); Paulette Falcon, <?If the evil ever occurs@: The 1873 Married Women=s Property Act: Law ... Situated at the head of Lake Ontario, Hamilton celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary in 1891. ...
Business History Review, 1982
Business History Review, 1981
Canadian lines that were spreading out over what would become the Province of Ontario looked forw... more Canadian lines that were spreading out over what would become the Province of Ontario looked forward, in the years before the American Civil War, to becoming important east-west carriers between the rapidly growing American cities of the eastern seaboard and the still-new cities of the American Midwest. Canada's small population and undeveloped industry would force her railroads to rely heavily on traffic going from one American city to another. Lines like the Grand Trunk and the Great Western struggled desperately therefore, to avoid American financial control. With the help of British capital, they succeeded. But America's contribution to Canadian railroading ran much deeper than money. Dominating the skilled engineers and experienced construction contractors who came from south of the border was more difficult for Canadian directors to manage. In the end, however, it was the early failure of top Canadian management to bury their rivalries, ignore their English creditors, ...
American Review of Canadian Studies, 1979
... in the past are the several analyses of union-management relations written by John Tuck, Desm... more ... in the past are the several analyses of union-management relations written by John Tuck, Desmond ... A History of Transportation in Canada, Toronto, 1938; D. Creighton, JA Macdonald: The Old ... zPBrian Young, Promofers & Politicians: The North-Shore Railways in the History of ...
Taylor & Francis
Jensen. 30 (1): 4657. Transforming Localities: Reflections on Time, Causality, and Narrative in C... more Jensen. 30 (1): 4657. Transforming Localities: Reflections on Time, Causality, and Narrative in Contemporary Historical Sociology, An Introduction to Research in His- ... Childhood Mortality: Comparisons from the 1900 and 1910 United States Census Public Use Samples. M. R. ... Using the I940 and 1950 Public Use The Use of the census to Estimate Microdata Samples: A Cautionary Tale. R. M. Ito 11, B. Gratton, and J. Wycoff. 30 (3): 137-47. ... In addition to members of the Editorial Board of Historical Methods, those listed below served as ...
2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2014
ABSTRACT For almost two centuries social theorists have argued that the fundamental difference in... more ABSTRACT For almost two centuries social theorists have argued that the fundamental difference in social structure between Europe and North America arises from greater economic and geographic mobility in North America. We study social mobility in three countries across two generations using machine learning techniques to create panels of individuals linked between censuses thirty years apart (1850-1880, 1880-1910). This paper reports on a preliminary analysis of social mobility between 1850 and 1880, finding that mobility was markedly higher in the United States and Canada, compared to Great Britain.
Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Research from Historical Sources, 2015
In this paper we report on the construction of longitudinal data and use them to refine our under... more In this paper we report on the construction of longitudinal data and use them to refine our understanding of economic and demographic change in Canada during the 1870s. The dominant impression created by the new source is one of change amid continuity. There was considerable occupational persistence and, yet, some weakening in the case of agriculture and a tendency for younger men to switch into manufacturing and commerce. Admittedly, change was slow and gradual, and for that reason difficult to see in the aggregate published tabulations which until recently comprised our only evidence. The longitudinal micro-data, however, document complex patterns of subtle change that cumulatively, over several decades, would transform Canada profoundly. The new evidence reveals that, initial impressions notwithstanding, Canada participated in the same processes of industrialization and structural change that swept through the north Atlantic societies in the second half of the nineteenth century.
pp 120-140 in P. Baskerville and K. Inwood, eds., Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Research from Historical Sources (McGill-Queens University Press 2015). ISBN 9780773544666.
2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2014
For almost two centuries social theorists have argued that the fundamental difference in social s... more For almost two centuries social theorists have argued that the fundamental difference in social structure between Europe and North America arises from greater economic and geographic mobility in North America. We study social mobility in three countries across two generations using machine learning techniques to create panels of individuals linked between censuses thirty years apart (1850-1880, 1880-1910). This paper reports on a preliminary analysis of social mobility between 1850 and 1880, finding that mobility was markedly higher in the United States and Canada, compared to Great Britain.
Articles and chapters by P. Baskerville
For scholars and policy makers the central question of our era is how best to develop, understand... more For scholars and policy makers the central question of our era is how best to develop, understand and make use of abundant data. How, in other words, can we best turn information into knowledge? We argue that within the discipline of history and the humanities more generally mastering the challenge of data abundance requires a paradigm shift in the way research is conducted and in the tools required to carry out such research. a) New tools are necessary to make sense of digital media. b) Beside the traditional image of the lone humanist scholar must be put the notion of a collaboratory, a laboratory without walls, to which interdisciplinary teams or networks contribute. c) The resultant methods and research output must be seen as publically accessible goods that can be built on by other scholarly innovators. d) General civic awareness implies knowledge of past developments and how those processes affect and condition present activities and future directions. We focus on routinely generated historical digital data, an important component of the Nation's data infrastructure. We examine four sectors: on-line genealogy sites; on-line heritage sites; academic research using routinely generated quantitative data; the teaching of quantitative methods in university classrooms; and, policy making at the state level.
A Knowledge Report on the Digital Economy for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, December 1 2010
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Papers by P. Baskerville
pp 120-140 in P. Baskerville and K. Inwood, eds., Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Research from Historical Sources (McGill-Queens University Press 2015). ISBN 9780773544666.
Articles and chapters by P. Baskerville
A Knowledge Report on the Digital Economy for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, December 1 2010
pp 120-140 in P. Baskerville and K. Inwood, eds., Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Research from Historical Sources (McGill-Queens University Press 2015). ISBN 9780773544666.
A Knowledge Report on the Digital Economy for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, December 1 2010