Practice question · Select all that apply
Which are genuine achievements of computational history?
Hints
- The real achievements reorganise knowledge at unmanageable scale.
- Interpreting a metaphor is not among them.
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- A. Name-linked censuses making nineteenth-century mobility measurable
- C. Mapping the correspondence networks of the Republic of Letters
- D. Turning scattered manifests into a countable slave-voyage database
Why
Three real reorganizations of knowledge, each one a scale no human reader could hold. The fourth is close reading’s job, and the machine has no opinion about metaphors.
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