J. B. (Jack) Owens
Idaho State University, History, Faculty Member
- Early Modern Catholicism, Economic history/Trade history/Oriental trade, Iberian Studies, Early Modern History, Geographically-Integrated History, Spanish History, and 168 moreFirst Global Age, 1400-1800, History Portuguese and Spanish, Cooperation (Evolutionary Psychology), Spain (History), Automotive History, Maritime Routes, Evolution of cooperation (Evolutionary Biology), Trust Theory (Evolution of cooperation), Early modern Ottoman History, Moriscos, Renaissance History, Portuguese History, Spain (Mediterranean Studies), 16th Century (History), Women's History, Microhistory, Historical GIS, Early Modern Portuguese History, World History, History of the Mediterranean, History of the Family, Medieval Iberian History, Atlantic World, Early Modern economic and social history, Early Modern Europe, Merchant networks, Global History, Merchant communities, Atlantic history, Borderlands Studies, Courts and Elites (History), Early Modern Era, Early Modern France, Modern Spanish History, Cooperation, Spanish Monarchy, Monarquía Hispánica, Heresy and Inquisition, Early modern Spain, Early Modern print culture, Inquisition, Limpieza De Sangre, Charles V, The Spanish Inquisition, Narrative Methods, Narrative Theory, French Cinema, 20th Century French Literature, Littérature Française, French History, Narrative, Historical network analysis, Historical Network Research, Fernand Braudel, Cultural Intermediaries In The Early Modern Mediterranean, Análisis de redes sociales, Milano, Communities of practice, Gender History, Gender, Genealogia, Local and regional history, Genealogy-Family History, Archivística, Complexity Economics, Ottoman History, History of Cartography, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Women, Early Modern Italy, Spain, Women and Gender Studies, Research Methodology, Modeling and Simulation, Mental Models, Historia Moderna De España, Historia medieval de España, Historia Económica, Violence, Microhistoria, Transnational and World History, Connected History, History of Slavery, Historiography, State Theory, Comparative History, Historical Studies, Urban History, Medieval urban history, History of Commerce, French history and politics, Legitimacy and Authority, Space and Place, Jurisdiction, poesía española del Siglo de Oro, Portuguese Inquisition, Economic and Social History, Medieval Economic and Social History, Diaspora and transnationalism, História Moderna, History of Plague, Craft Guilds in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Craft Guilds, Revolts and protests, Complex Systems Science, Complex Systems, Complex Networks, Social Network Analysis (SNA), Social Network Analysis, Siglo XVI, Early Modern Atlantic World (1500-1815), Sixteenth Century History, Merchants and Merchant Colonies, Sephardic Studies, Portugal (History), Sephardic Jews, Criminal Justice History, Banditry, Historia del Reino de Valencia, Consumption and Material Culture, Port cities, Trade Routes, Theory of History, Medieval trade, Medieval Slavery, Medieval Mediterranean, Teoría de la Historia, Historiografía, Religious Conversion and Converts in the Early Modern Mediterranean context, Maghreb studies, Spanish Golden Age, Models, Methodology of History, Phenomenology of Temporality, Antisemitism, Paleography, Early Modern Jewish History, Business History, Legal Theory and History, Revenge, Medieval Canon & Roman Law, Religion and Violence, Renaissance Humanism, Early Modern Intellectual History, Histoire moderne, Consciousness, Consciousness Studies, Historia Moderna, Historia De Las Mujeres, Autopoiesis, Black Death, Plague, Nasri Kingdom of Granada, Inquisition. Moriscos. Lead Books. Granada. Conversion. Religious Polemics, Evolution of Consciousness, Social Trust, Multi-Agent Systems, Annales school, Historical Theory, Vias De Comunicacion, Ducato di Milano, Globalisation and cultural change, Spanish colonialism in the Philippines, Urban Morphology, Cortes, New Materialism, and Uskali Mäkiedit
- J. B. Owens is Professor (emeritus) of History and Distinguished Researcher at Idaho State University (USA). Owens... moreJ. B. Owens is Professor (emeritus) of History and Distinguished Researcher at Idaho State University (USA).
Owens has treated nonlinear dynamics and the political system in his book, "By My Absolute Royal Authority": Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age, which argues that perceptions of royal judicial administration shaped the degree of collaboration with the Crown by the kingdom's politically important groups. The abstract and critical comments about this book are available at the URL:
http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=6555
Owens is now seeking to explain the high levels of cooperation in smuggling networks during the period 1550-1570. Although goods were moved between Central Europe and the Americas, this work focuses primarily on the kingdoms of Castile and Valencia and the Duchy of Milan. This research has been supported by fellowships from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as by several grants from Idaho State University.edit
J. B. Owens. Rebelión, monarquía y oligarquía murciana en la época de Carlos V. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, 1980. My sincere thanks goes to Javier Ezcurdia, world-systems sociology graduate student at the University of Binghamton (New... more
J. B. Owens. Rebelión, monarquía y oligarquía murciana en la época de Carlos V. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, 1980. My sincere thanks goes to Javier Ezcurdia, world-systems sociology graduate student at the University of Binghamton (New York, USA) for preparing this pdf for me. The companion piece for this book is: J. B. Owens. “Los Regidores y Jurados de Murcia, 1500-1650: Una guía.” Anales de la Universidad de Murcia 38,3 (1981): 95 150. I hope to upload a pdf of this publication soon.
Research Interests: European History, Early Modern History, Urban History, Revolutions, Habsburg Studies, and 15 moreHistory Portuguese and Spanish, 16th Century (History), History of Elites, Social movements and revolution, Spain (History), Early Modern Spanish literature, Monarchy, Aristocracy, Rebellion, Corruption, History of Revolutions, Spanish Monarchy, Oligarchy, Sixteenth Century History, and Historia Moderna De España
Historians and historical social scientists can now learn geographic information systems (GIS) with the aid of an introductory training manual designed especially for them. Update (July 31 2017): Beginning today, you must download... more
Historians and historical social scientists can now learn geographic information systems (GIS) with the aid of an introductory training manual designed especially for them.
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Update (July 31 2017): Beginning today, you must download MapWindow 4.8.6 directly from our website. To install the software required to do our exercises, kindly access the following URL: http://www.geographicallyintegratedhistory.com/begin-here/
Research Interests: History, Sociology, Geography, Human Geography, Historical Geography, and 30 moreUrban Geography, Cartography, Anthropology, French History, Social Sciences, Historical GIS, World Systems Analysis, Urban History, Brazilian History, World History, History of Cartography, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Geographically-Integrated History, Archaeological GIS, Social History, History Education, Historia Social, Historia, World-Systems Analysis, Historical Network Research, Geografia, Cartografia, Historical network analysis, Historical Geographical Information Systems, Historical Data Analysis using Social Networks, Historical road networks, Historical Urban Networks, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Historical Geographical Network Analysis, and Social Networks in Historical Contex
Book/e-book by J. B. Owens
Research Interests: Collective Behavior, Political Sociology, Law, Constitutional Law, Political Philosophy, and 75 moreSocial Anthropology, History of Ideas, Late Middle Ages, Medieval History, Political Theory, Early Modern History, Social Identity, Legal Profession, Dispute Resolution, Self-Organization, Political Anthropology, Law and Society, Legal Anthropology, Legal History, Conflict, Cooperation and Conflict, Revolutions, Identity (Culture), State Formation, Nonlinear dynamics, Institutional Theory, Institutional Change, Legal Pluralism, Spanish History, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Trust Theory (Evolution of cooperation), Complex Systems, Early Modern Europe, Political History, Socio-legal studies, Historical Institutionalism, Justice, State Theory, Absolutism, Social Ontology, History of Political Thought, Normativity, Medieval Europe, Conflict Resolution, Microhistory, Social Norms, Social History, Legal interpretation, Social Evolution, Comparative Civil Procedure, Legal Philosophy, Institutions (Political Science), Anthropology of the State, Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Monarchy, Judicial Decision-Making, Medieval Spain, Direito Processual Civil, Early modern Spain, Cooperation, Conflictos Sociales, History of Law, Social Control, Cities, Aristocracy, Rebellion, Norms, Institutions, Medieval History of Spain, State, Microhistoria, Derecho Procesal Civil, Social Conflict, Spanish Monarchy, State sovereignty, State Sovereignity, Sociology of the State, History of Law and Administration, and Legal Pluralism And Judicial Politics
Review of J. B. Owens, 'By My Absolute Royal Authority': Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age, written by Rila Mukherjee (U. of Hyderabad, India), in which she does an excellent job of explaining... more
Review of J. B. Owens, 'By My Absolute Royal Authority': Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age, written by Rila Mukherjee (U. of Hyderabad, India), in which she does an excellent job of explaining the book and suggesting future research.
Research Interests: Collective Behavior, Political Sociology, Law, Constitutional Law, Political Philosophy, and 74 moreSocial Anthropology, History of Ideas, Late Middle Ages, Medieval History, Political Theory, Early Modern History, Social Identity, Legal Profession, Dispute Resolution, Self-Organization, Political Anthropology, Law and Society, Legal Anthropology, Legal History, Conflict, Cooperation and Conflict, Revolutions, Identity (Culture), State Formation, Nonlinear dynamics, Institutional Theory, Institutional Change, Legal Pluralism, Spanish History, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Trust Theory (Evolution of cooperation), Complex Systems, Early Modern Europe, Political History, Socio-legal studies, Historical Institutionalism, Justice, State Theory, Absolutism, Social Ontology, History of Political Thought, Normativity, Medieval Europe, Conflict Resolution, Microhistory, Social Norms, Social History, Legal interpretation, Social Evolution, Comparative Civil Procedure, Legal Philosophy, Institutions (Political Science), Anthropology of the State, Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Monarchy, Judicial Decision-Making, Medieval Spain, Direito Processual Civil, Early modern Spain, Cooperation, Conflictos Sociales, History of Law, Social Control, Cities, Aristocracy, Rebellion, Norms, Institutions, Medieval History of Spain, Microhistoria, Derecho Procesal Civil, Social Conflict, Spanish Monarchy, State sovereignty, State Sovereignity, Sociology of the State, History of Law and Administration, and Legal Pluralism And Judicial Politics
""By My Absolute Royal Authority": Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age is a study of judicial administration. From the fifteenth century to the seventeenth, the kingdom of Castile experienced a... more
""By My Absolute Royal Authority": Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age is a study of judicial administration. From the fifteenth century to the seventeenth, the kingdom of Castile experienced a remarkable proliferation of judicial institutions, which historians have generally seen as part of a metanarrative of "state-building." Yet, Castile's frontiers were extremely porous, and a crown government that could not control the kingdom's borders exhibited neither the ability to obtain information and shape affairs, nor the centrality of court politics that many historians claim in an effort to craft a tidy narrative of this period.
Castilians retained their loyalty to the monarchy not because of the "power" of the institutions of a developing "state," but because they shared an identity as citizens of a commonwealth in which a high value was given to justice as an ultimate purpose of the political community and a conviction that the sovereign possessed "absolute royal authority" to see that justice was done. This expectation served as a foundation for the political identity and loyalty that held together for several centuries the disparate and globally-dispersed domains of the Hispanic Monarchy, but perceptions of how well crown judicial institutions worked were a fundamental determinant of the degree of support a monarch could attract to meet fiscal and military goals.
This book maps part of this unfamiliar terrain through a microhistory of an extended, high profile lawsuit that was carefully watched by generations of Castilian leaders. Justices from the late fifteenth century to the reign of Philip II had difficulty resolving the conflict because the proper exercise of "absolute royal authority" was itself the central legal issue and the dispute pitted against each other members of important groups who demonstrated a tendency to give prominence to different interpretive schemes as they tried to comprehend their world."
Castilians retained their loyalty to the monarchy not because of the "power" of the institutions of a developing "state," but because they shared an identity as citizens of a commonwealth in which a high value was given to justice as an ultimate purpose of the political community and a conviction that the sovereign possessed "absolute royal authority" to see that justice was done. This expectation served as a foundation for the political identity and loyalty that held together for several centuries the disparate and globally-dispersed domains of the Hispanic Monarchy, but perceptions of how well crown judicial institutions worked were a fundamental determinant of the degree of support a monarch could attract to meet fiscal and military goals.
This book maps part of this unfamiliar terrain through a microhistory of an extended, high profile lawsuit that was carefully watched by generations of Castilian leaders. Justices from the late fifteenth century to the reign of Philip II had difficulty resolving the conflict because the proper exercise of "absolute royal authority" was itself the central legal issue and the dispute pitted against each other members of important groups who demonstrated a tendency to give prominence to different interpretive schemes as they tried to comprehend their world."
Research Interests: Collective Behavior, Political Sociology, Law, Constitutional Law, Political Philosophy, and 63 moreSocial Anthropology, Late Middle Ages, Medieval History, Political Theory, Early Modern History, Social Identity, Legal Profession, Dispute Resolution, Self-Organization, Political Anthropology, Law and Society, Legal Anthropology, Legal History, Conflict, Cooperation and Conflict, Identity (Culture), State Formation, Nonlinear dynamics, Institutional Theory, Institutional Change, Legal Pluralism, Spanish History, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Trust Theory (Evolution of cooperation), Complex Systems, Early Modern Europe, Political History, Socio-legal studies, Justice, State Theory, Absolutism, Social Ontology, History of Political Thought, Normativity, Medieval Europe, Conflict Resolution, Microhistory, Social Norms, Social History, Legal interpretation, Social Evolution, Comparative Civil Procedure, Legal Philosophy, Institutions (Political Science), Anthropology of the State, Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Monarchy, Judicial Decision-Making, Direito Processual Civil, Cooperation, Conflictos Sociales, Social Control, Cities, Aristocracy, Norms, Institutions, State, Microhistoria, Derecho Procesal Civil, Social Conflict, State sovereignty, and Sociology of the State
Research Interests: European History, Latin American Studies, Political Philosophy, Social Networks, Latin American and Caribbean History, and 27 moreLate Middle Ages, Medieval History, Decision Making, Political Theory, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Urban History, Legal History, Medieval urban history, Political Science, Revolutions, Legal Theory, Nonlinear dynamics, Civil War, Habsburg Studies, Spanish History, Justice, Latin American History, European Legal History, Restoration, Comparative Legal History, Monarchy, Cooperation, Revolution, Clientelismo, Patron-Client Relations, and Political Clientelism
Cite: Owens, J. B. (2023). “A Complex-Systems Landscape: Recognizing What Is Important in World History,” New Techno-Humanities 3 (1): 6-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techum.2023.05.003 In Special Issue [Open Access], “Digital... more
Cite: Owens, J. B. (2023). “A Complex-Systems Landscape: Recognizing What Is Important in World History,” New Techno-Humanities 3 (1): 6-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techum.2023.05.003 In Special Issue [Open Access], “Digital Humanities and its Application to Global (Economic) History. Economic Development in the West and East,” edited by Manuel Pérez García. ABSTRACT: This article introduces a complex-systems metaphor/model for a world history greater than the sum of its parts. Due to the difficulty of thinking about any event within such a complicated context, we present a visualization to guide researchers’ recognition of the relationships that shape the historical process they study. To support thought, we repurpose a pair of linked visualizations that model gene expression in the morphogenesis of tissues and organs from a fertilized egg. The visual metaphor presents the shaping factors in two ways. First, the historical process encounters, as it moves through the complex-systems landscape, a series of elevations and depressions, which can be identified with significant relations. Second, from below, the metaphor permits the identification of these perturbations, the hills and valleys, with networks connecting the landscape's undulations to developments in specific places and larger geographic areas. These networks also serve to represent the way the complex human system couples with the complex natural systems relevant to the historical process in question. Moreover, the metaphor demands the recognition of hierarchies of instability, on which historians must focus to understand when a level of instability is reduced through some localized development, and when the instability level in places most relevant to the overall human system become so unstable that the system enters a period of phase transition to a new historical system and period. Employing the metaphor in this manner allows historians to defend the importance of their own research by tying it to world historical processes.
Research Interests: Economic History, Set Theory, Peace and Conflict Studies, Social Networks, Early Modern History, and 15 moreWorld Systems Analysis, World History, Spanish History, Complex Systems, Early Modern Europe, Alfred North Whitehead, Global History, Social History, Early Modern economic and social history, Fernand Braudel, Cooperation, Non-Linear Dynamics, Monarquía Hispánica, Synergetics, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
J. B. Owens. 2008. “A Multi-national, Multi-disciplinary Study of Trade Networks and the Domains of Iberian Monarchies during the First Global Age, 1400-1800.” Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 33, 2... more
J. B. Owens. 2008. “A Multi-national, Multi-disciplinary Study of Trade Networks and the Domains of Iberian Monarchies during the First Global Age, 1400-1800.” Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Bulletin 33, 2 (December): 23-30. Report on the funded project DynCoopNet, European Science Foundation, TECT (The Evolution of Cooperation and Trade) Program, 2007-2010; see pages 23 to 30 of this publication.
Research Interests: History, Economic History, Cartography, Economics, Social Networks, and 15 moreEarly Modern History, Evolution of cooperation (Evolutionary Biology), International Trade, Cooperation (Evolutionary Psychology), Early Modern Portuguese History, History of Cartography, Complexity, Complex Networks, Social History, Trade, Early modern Spain, Cooperation, Historia medieval de España, Historia Moderna De España, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
J. B. Owens 2022. Brief Biography and CV. Because the CV is long, a brief biography is included as an introduction in order to guide a user to the material of interest.
Research Interests: History, Economic History, French History, Social Networks, Early Modern History, and 15 moreNonlinear dynamics, Local Government, Spanish History, Complexity, Group Dynamics, Informal Economy, Emergence, Contemporary History of Spain, Medieval Spain, Early modern Spain, Cooperation, Social Inequality, Smuggling, Sixteenth Century History, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
J. B. Owens (2021) Markets in the shadows, trade diasporas, and self-organizing trading/smuggling networks. In J. C. Moreno García (ed), Markets and Exchanges in Pre-Modern and Traditional Societies, 115-154 [Chapter 7]. Oxford, UK: Oxbow... more
J. B. Owens (2021) Markets in the shadows, trade diasporas, and self-organizing trading/smuggling networks. In J. C. Moreno García (ed), Markets and Exchanges in Pre-Modern and Traditional Societies, 115-154 [Chapter 7]. Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books. ISBN: 9781789256116 | 240p, H9.4 x W6.7, b/w
Abstract:
As part of an innovative comparative history project to develop new social science concepts about markets and exchanges in pre-modern societies, this chapter focuses on merchant-smugglers (mostly those based in Toledo, Kingdom of Castile) in the 1560s CE. Conversos (those with Jewish ancestors) and Italian merchants (from Genoa and Milan) make up the sample group. Because of the overall project’s orientation, the chapter dedicates attention to women’s agency. The chapter includes two maps by Anderson Sidles (Seattle, WA, USA).
Abstract:
As part of an innovative comparative history project to develop new social science concepts about markets and exchanges in pre-modern societies, this chapter focuses on merchant-smugglers (mostly those based in Toledo, Kingdom of Castile) in the 1560s CE. Conversos (those with Jewish ancestors) and Italian merchants (from Genoa and Milan) make up the sample group. Because of the overall project’s orientation, the chapter dedicates attention to women’s agency. The chapter includes two maps by Anderson Sidles (Seattle, WA, USA).
Research Interests: Economic History, Social Networks, Women's History, Diasporas, Criminal Justice History, and 15 moreViolence Against Women, Spain (Mediterranean Studies), Early Modern Italy, Early Modern economic and social history, Spain (History), Early modern Spain, Women's Entrepreneurship, History of Commerce, Merchant networks, Borders and Frontiers, Contrabando, Conversos, Monarquía Hispánica, Smuggling, and Borders and Borderlands
J. B. Owens (2021) The World History Methodology of David Ringrose’s Final Two Books Comments presented to the zoom Homage Panel for David Ringrose (1938-2020), Association for Spanish and Portuguese Society annual meeting (virtual),... more
J. B. Owens (2021) The World History Methodology of David Ringrose’s Final Two Books
Comments presented to the zoom Homage Panel for David Ringrose (1938-2020), Association for Spanish and Portuguese Society annual meeting (virtual), Saturday, 24 April 2021 (https://asphs.net/annual-meeting/). His ASPHS obituary, by Pamela Radcliff, which also includes the family’s obituary, is available online (https://asphs.net/home/21622-2/).
Comments presented to the zoom Homage Panel for David Ringrose (1938-2020), Association for Spanish and Portuguese Society annual meeting (virtual), Saturday, 24 April 2021 (https://asphs.net/annual-meeting/). His ASPHS obituary, by Pamela Radcliff, which also includes the family’s obituary, is available online (https://asphs.net/home/21622-2/).
Research Interests: Economic History, Southeast Asian Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History, Early Modern History, Transnational and World History, and 15 moreWorld Systems Analysis, South Asian Studies, African History, World History, Colonialism, South Asian History, Early Modern Europe, East Asian Studies, Early Modern economic and social history, International Economic History, Pacific History, East Asian History, Indian History, Economic and Social History, and Monarquía Hispánica
Owens, J. B. (2021). ‘By my absolute royal authority: Contracts and judicial institutions; Cooperation and the nonlinear dynamics of the First Global Age, 1400-1800. Academia Letters, Article 586 (March). What I did not say. In the... more
Owens, J. B. (2021). ‘By my absolute royal authority: Contracts and judicial institutions; Cooperation and the nonlinear dynamics of the First Global Age, 1400-1800. Academia Letters, Article 586 (March).
What I did not say. In the final manuscript of my 2005 book, *“By My Absolute Royal Authority”: Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age*, I suppressed two themes for which the book remains relevant. I offer this brief paper to point out to scholars in the fields of economic/institutional history and of cooperation studies that the book provides a great deal of information and analysis related directly to their research interests.
What I did not say. In the final manuscript of my 2005 book, *“By My Absolute Royal Authority”: Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age*, I suppressed two themes for which the book remains relevant. I offer this brief paper to point out to scholars in the fields of economic/institutional history and of cooperation studies that the book provides a great deal of information and analysis related directly to their research interests.
Research Interests: Economic History, Institutional Economics, Social Networks, Early Modern History, Contract Law, and 15 moreSpanish History, Alfred North Whitehead, Microhistory, Institutionalism (Economic History), Fernand Braudel, Cooperation, Institutional history, Monarquía Hispánica, Nonlinear Dynamics and complex systems, Trade Networks, Douglass C. North, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Cooperation Studies, Judicial Institutions, and Andre Gunder Frank
We propose a research scheme for a "world history of the world." Our method provides the means of analyzing the networks, on a global scale if desired, that connected places and people in the context of the multiple political, legal and... more
We propose a research scheme for a "world history of the world." Our method provides the means of analyzing the networks, on a global scale if desired, that connected places and people in the context of the multiple political, legal and institutional regimes, local cultural environments, and disruptive events through which the connecting social networks passed. We propose the use of the computational advances of the artificial intelligence (AI) age. However, this article presents these advances in an introductory form designed for novices. In particular, we explain how historians can compensate for the lack of information needed to explain self-organization and emergence in the social networks of the planetary complex, nonlinear, human world-system of the First Global Age, 1400-1800. To fill the information lacunae, we propose the use agent-based modeling (ABM), a type of computational artificial intelligence (AI), to simulate needed data, extending what we know from the available sources. We employ Intentionally-Linked Entities (ILE), a revolutionary database management system (DBMS), to model and visualize information about the influences
We propose a research scheme for a "world history of the world." Our method provides the means of analyzing the networks, on a global scale if desired, that connected places and people in the context of the multiple political, legal and... more
We propose a research scheme for a "world history of the world." Our method provides the means of analyzing the networks, on a global scale if desired, that connected places and people in the context of the multiple political, legal and institutional regimes, local cultural environments, and disruptive events through which the connecting social networks passed. We propose the use of the computational advances of the artificial intelligence (AI) age. However, this article presents these advances in an introductory form designed for novices. In particular, we explain how historians can compensate for the lack of information needed to explain self-organization and emergence in the social networks of the planetary complex, nonlinear, human world-system of the First Global Age, 1400-1800. To fill the information lacunae, we propose the use agent-based modeling (ABM), a type of computational artificial intelligence (AI), to simulate needed data, extending what we know from the available sources. We employ Intentionally-Linked Entities (ILE), a revolutionary database management system (DBMS), to model and visualize information about the influences
Research Interests: History, Economic History, Sociology, Artificial Intelligence, Social Networks, and 15 moreTransnational and World History, World Systems Analysis, Complexity Theory, Self-Organization, Agent Based Simulation, Nonlinear dynamics, World History, Spanish History, Global History, Agent-based modeling, Emergence, Cooperation, Database Management Systems, Monarquía Hispánica, and Smuggling
Abstract This report describes my search for nonlinear, nonfiction, narrative forms for histories of the “local” (e.g. Murcia, Spain) within a dynamic, complex, global system, 1400-1800. Keywords Narrative, nonlinear, complex systems,... more
Abstract
This report describes my search for nonlinear, nonfiction, narrative forms for histories of the “local” (e.g. Murcia, Spain) within a dynamic, complex, global system, 1400-1800.
Keywords
Narrative, nonlinear, complex systems, Spanish history, William Faulkner, Maurice-Edgar Coindreau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, French Nouvelle vague cinema, Patrick Modiano, Raymond Queneau, Igor Stravinsky, Joanne Bruzdowicz, Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer, Andre Gunder Frank, world systems, Agent-Based Modeling, Murray Gell-Mann, Artificial Intelligence, National Science Foundation, Convergence Research
This report describes my search for nonlinear, nonfiction, narrative forms for histories of the “local” (e.g. Murcia, Spain) within a dynamic, complex, global system, 1400-1800.
Keywords
Narrative, nonlinear, complex systems, Spanish history, William Faulkner, Maurice-Edgar Coindreau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, French Nouvelle vague cinema, Patrick Modiano, Raymond Queneau, Igor Stravinsky, Joanne Bruzdowicz, Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer, Andre Gunder Frank, world systems, Agent-Based Modeling, Murray Gell-Mann, Artificial Intelligence, National Science Foundation, Convergence Research
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, French Literature, French Cinema, Early Modern History, Narrative, and 15 moreWorld Systems Analysis, Nonlinear dynamics, World History, Spanish History, Complex Systems, Electronic Music, Convergence, Jean Paul Sartre, William Faulkner, Agent-based modeling, Jean-Luc Godard, French Music, World-Systems Analysis, Non-Linear Dynamics, and Agnes Varda
Owens and Kantabutra. “Using Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) to simulate, within the context of the Intentionally-Linked Entities (ILE) database management system, missing information: To explain self-organization and emergence in world... more
Owens and Kantabutra. “Using Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) to simulate, within the context of the Intentionally-Linked Entities (ILE) database management system, missing information: To explain self-organization and emergence in world commercial and political networks during the First Global Age, 1400-1800.”
Paper for the session “Social Network Analysis and Multi-Relational Databases on Comparative Studies in China and Europe”; 18th World Economic History Congress, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, July 29-August 3, 2018 [Tues., 31 July, Session A, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm, Room 5: Samberg Conference Center, MIT]
Paper for the session “Social Network Analysis and Multi-Relational Databases on Comparative Studies in China and Europe”; 18th World Economic History Congress, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, July 29-August 3, 2018 [Tues., 31 July, Session A, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm, Room 5: Samberg Conference Center, MIT]
Research Interests: History, European History, Economic History, Sociology, Economic Sociology, and 75 moreCognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Psychology, Economics, Political Economy, Philosophy of Science, Complex Systems Science, Social Networks, Latin American and Caribbean History, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Database Systems, Portuguese History, World Systems Analysis, Complexity Theory, Self-Organization, Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochasticity, Business History, Agent Based Simulation, Nonlinear dynamics, Japanese History, World History, Global Studies, Spanish History, First Global Age, 1400-1800, History Portuguese and Spanish, Complex Systems, Complexity, Political Corruption, Cognitive Linguistics, Complex Networks, Global History, Social Network Analysis (SNA), Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Latin American History, Social History, History of the Mediterranean, Agent-Based Computational Economics, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern economic and social history, Chaos/Complexity Theory, Agent-based modeling, Chinese history (History), Spain (History), Databases, Complex Adaptive Systems, European economic history and historiography, Emergence, Comparative Historical Analysis, Historia Social, Economics of Corruption, Early modern Spain, Cooperation, Social Complexity, Database Management Systems, Colonial Latin American History, Agent Based Modeling and Simulation, Historia, History of Customs and Smuggling, Economia, Merchant networks, Complejidad / Complexity, World-Systems Analysis, Corruption, World Economy, Database Design, European Economic History, World-Systems Theory, Corrupción, Nonlinear Dynamics, Bifurcation and Stability, Smuggling, Historia Economica, Ming-Qing History, History of Milan, and Genoa and Spain
Slides, presentation by J.B. Owens, World Economic History Congress, MIT, USA. J. B. Owens and Vitit Kantabutra, "Using Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) to simulate, within the context of the Intentionally-Linked Entities (ILE) database... more
Slides, presentation by J.B. Owens, World Economic History Congress, MIT, USA.
J. B. Owens and Vitit Kantabutra, "Using Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) to simulate, within the context of the Intentionally-Linked Entities (ILE) database management system, missing information: To explain self-organization and emergence in the world's commercial and political networks during the First Global Age, 1400-1800"
J. B. Owens and Vitit Kantabutra, "Using Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) to simulate, within the context of the Intentionally-Linked Entities (ILE) database management system, missing information: To explain self-organization and emergence in the world's commercial and political networks during the First Global Age, 1400-1800"
Research Interests: History, European History, Economic History, Sociology, Economic Sociology, and 61 moreCognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Psychology, Economics, Political Economy, Philosophy of Science, Complex Systems Science, Social Networks, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Database Systems, Portuguese History, World Systems Analysis, Complexity Theory, Self-Organization, Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochasticity, Agent Based Simulation, Nonlinear dynamics, World History, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Complex Systems, Early Modern Europe, Complexity, Political Corruption, Complex Networks, Social Network Analysis (SNA), Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Social History, Agent-Based Computational Economics, Early Modern economic and social history, Chaos/Complexity Theory, Agent-based modeling, Spain (History), Databases, Complex Adaptive Systems, European economic history and historiography, Emergence, Comparative Historical Analysis, Historia Social, Economics of Corruption, Early modern Spain, Cooperation, Social Complexity, Database Management Systems, Agent Based Modeling and Simulation, Historia, History of Customs and Smuggling, Economia, Agent Based Modelling, Complejidad / Complexity, World-Systems Analysis, Agent-Based Modelling, Corruption, World Economy, Database Design, European Economic History, World-Systems Theory, Nonlinear Dynamics, Bifurcation and Stability, Smuggling, Historia Economica, and Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation (ABMS)
ABSTRACT This article explores struggles over reputation in the Castilian city of Murcia with particular attention to the 1620s. It demonstrates that the basis of dissension was political, with politics understood as the competition over... more
ABSTRACT
This article explores struggles over reputation in the Castilian city of Murcia with particular attention to the 1620s. It demonstrates that the basis of dissension was political, with politics understood as the competition over scarce resources among wealthy individuals, many of whom held positions in the municipal council.
This article explores struggles over reputation in the Castilian city of Murcia with particular attention to the 1620s. It demonstrates that the basis of dissension was political, with politics understood as the competition over scarce resources among wealthy individuals, many of whom held positions in the municipal council.
Research Interests: Spanish Literature, Spanish Studies, Early Modern History, Spanish Literature (Peninsular), Spanish History, and 10 moreHistory Portuguese and Spanish, Early Modern Europe, Baroque Art and Literature, Early Modern Literature, Intellectual History of the Baroque Period, Early Modern economic and social history, Spain (History), Spain, Early modern Spain, and Pedro Calderon De La Barca
J. B. Owens (2006) "El largo pleito entre Toledo y el Conde de Belalcázar: La investigación en el Archivo Municipal de Toledo y la aplicación del concepto de 'poderío real absoluto'," Archivo Secreto, 3, pp. 18-28.
Research Interests: History, European History, Political Sociology, Law, Jurisprudence, and 36 moreComparative Law, Constitutional Law, Political Philosophy, Archival Studies, Legitimacy and Authority, European Law, Medieval History, Political Theory, Early Modern History, Legal Anthropology, Legal History, Roman Law, Legal Pluralism, Archival science, Early Modern Europe, Archives, Political History, Power and Authority in the Middle Ages, Justice, Early Modern Intellectual History, Early Modern economic and social history, Civil Procedure, Spain (History), Monarchy, Medieval Spain, Spain, Direito Processual Civil, Early modern Spain, Kingdom of Castile in the Middle Ages, Medieval History of Spain, Political Power, Derecho Procesal Civil, Authority, Library and Archival Science, Manifestations of Authority and Power, and History of Political and Judicial Institutions in Early Modern Age and Modern Age •History of the Republic of Venice •History of the Kingdom of Lombardy Venetia and of the Habsburg Empire in XVIII and XIX Centuries
Based on information gathered in the provincial capital of Murcia using the technique of “participant observation”, the article describes a crucial period in the transformation of the Spanish Communist Party during Spain’s transition from... more
Based on information gathered in the provincial capital of Murcia using the technique of “participant observation”, the article describes a crucial period in the transformation of the Spanish Communist Party during Spain’s transition from a fascist dictatorship to a parliamentary democracy.
Research Interests: European History, Political Sociology, Marxism, Contemporary History, Political Science, and 15 moreCommunism, Political History, European Politics, Marxist theory, 20th century (History), Democracy, Labor History and Studies, 20th Century, Spain (History), Labor unions, Contemporary History of Spain, Spain, History of Communism, Democratic Transitions, and Political Economy and History
Owens, J. B. (1994). "Spanish Communist Poster Politics in the Transition to Democracy." In B. F. Taggie, R. W. Clement, and J. E. Caraway (eds.), Mediterranean Studies 4 (Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1994): 183 214.
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, Social Movements, European Studies, and 21 moreComparative Politics, Political Science, Graphic Design, Democratization, Spanish History, Political communication, Communism, Media and Democracy, Social History, Democracy, Participatory Democracy, Labor History and Studies, Socialism, Constitutionalism, Labor unions, History of Communism, Socialismo, History of Graphic Design, Democracia, Ética y Política - Democracia y Ciudadanía, and Demandas Laborales
Translated by J. B. Owens, Ph.D., Professor of History, Idaho State University Because I have noted increased attention to the history of European fascist movements, I thought that there might be some interest in having available in... more
Translated by J. B. Owens, Ph.D., Professor of History, Idaho State University
Because I have noted increased attention to the history of European fascist movements, I thought that there might be some interest in having available in English translation the key documents of the Spanish fascist government under the leadership of Francisco Franco. I claim no great originality or literary quality for this translation, which I prepared for students in my course “Constituting Modern Spain, 1808-1982”. This course was designed as a comparative, world history course in which we studied attempts to create countries on the basis of written constitutions.
Because I have noted increased attention to the history of European fascist movements, I thought that there might be some interest in having available in English translation the key documents of the Spanish fascist government under the leadership of Francisco Franco. I claim no great originality or literary quality for this translation, which I prepared for students in my course “Constituting Modern Spain, 1808-1982”. This course was designed as a comparative, world history course in which we studied attempts to create countries on the basis of written constitutions.
Research Interests: European History, Political Science, European Constitutionalism, Fascism, International Political Economy, and 11 moreWorld History, Spanish History, Political History, Second World War, Global History, Spanish Civil War, 20th Century, Spain (History), Contemporary History of Spain, Constitutional History, and Political Economy and History
" Historians and Human Geographers deal with human systems or subsystems of considerable complexity. This situation presents a dilemma to those who use computational technologies, which demand a high level of precision to organize,... more
" Historians and Human Geographers deal with human systems or subsystems of considerable complexity. This situation presents a dilemma to those who use computational technologies, which demand a high level of precision to organize, analyze, and visualize information: the more complex the system is, the greater the imprecision of the available data. Historians and geographers often feel that their imprecise, ambiguous, contradictory, messy, largely qualitative information does not “fit” well in the available software categories, and they have trouble discussing the results produced when they work within computational environments because category assignment seems so arbitrary. This dilemma appears dramatically with the use of Geographically-Integrated History (GIH) as a research strategy. In this paper, we introduce fuzzy set theory (or fuzzy logic) as a proven solution for dealing with imprecision in complex systems.
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Research Interests: Humanities Computing (Digital Humanities), Complex Systems Science, Digital Humanities, Social Research Methods and Methodology, Social Networks, and 14 moreHistorical GIS, Qualitative methodology, Complexity Theory, Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy set theory, Nonlinear dynamics, Digital History, Geographically-Integrated History, Complexity, Qualitative Research, Social Network Analysis (SNA), Qualitative Research Methods, Social Network Analysis (Social Sciences), and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
For about a century, until the late 1920s, killer whales (Orcinus orca) and shore-based human whalers, both Aboriginals and those of European descent, in southeastern Australia cooperated to hunt large baleen whales. As is often the case... more
For about a century, until the late 1920s, killer whales (Orcinus orca) and shore-based human whalers, both Aboriginals and those of European descent, in southeastern Australia cooperated to hunt large baleen whales. As is often the case in historical research, the surviving sources provide us with only vague, imprecise, anecdotal, fragmented, and ambiguous accounts of this fascinating case of animal-human cooperation (or mutualism). In order to gain at least a partial understanding of this situation, as a pedagogical exercise for historians and historical social scientists, we explain the creation of an atemporal mathematical fuzzy rule-based model that helps us make sense of the information we have in order to enrich the historical narrative. We employ the strengths of fuzzy logic because information can be imprecise or vague and we can use variables that are subjective in nature (for example, cooperation). The rules on which the model is built are transparent and are thus readily understood and discussed among domain experts, thereby improving debates among historians. The modeling process remains open-ended so that in the future, we can include other models and/or variables/classes. Because fuzzy logic (fuzzy set theory) and mathematical modeling are well-established techniques for dealing with vague information with which historians are largely unfamiliar, we intend this article to serve a pedagogical purpose by teaching historians how to do this type of modeling work when their sources, particularly those that are qualitative, exhibit such vagueness.
An earlier version of this paper was presented (by Owens) to the SOCNET Networking Workshop, "'The dream which is not fed with dream disappears': Geographically-Integrated History and Dynamics GIS" (Boise, Idaho, USA), 7-8 August 2012.
Keywords: cooperation; mutualism; fuzzy rule-based modeling; shore-based whaling; Orcinus orca; killer whale; Australian history; Twofold Bay (Eden, Australia)
An earlier version of this paper was presented (by Owens) to the SOCNET Networking Workshop, "'The dream which is not fed with dream disappears': Geographically-Integrated History and Dynamics GIS" (Boise, Idaho, USA), 7-8 August 2012.
Keywords: cooperation; mutualism; fuzzy rule-based modeling; shore-based whaling; Orcinus orca; killer whale; Australian history; Twofold Bay (Eden, Australia)
Research Interests: History, Information Science, Humanities Computing (Digital Humanities), Digital Humanities, Information Literacy, and 50 moreInformation Management, Historical GIS, Spatial Ecology, Actor Network Theory, Fuzzy Logic, Data Analysis, Agent Based Simulation, Fuzzy set theory, Digital History, Soft Computing, Modeling, Australia, Geographically-Integrated History, Complex Systems, Library and Information Science, Complexity, Asia Pacific Region, System Dynamics Modeling, Modeling and Simulation, Groundwater modeling, History Education, Mathematical Modeling, Mathematical Modelling, Australian History, Actor Network Theory (ANT), Actor-Network-Theory, Probability and statistics, Aboriginal History in Australia, Agent-based modeling, Databases, Cybercultures, Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Pacific History, Probability, Interdisciplinary research (Social Sciences), Mutualism, Cooperation, Social Complexity, Multi-Agent Systems, Actor-Network Theory, Data Science, Spatial Humanities, Whaling, Spatial History, Humanities and Social Sciences, Development of complex societies, Data Structures, Mathematical Model, Killer Whales, and Social Science
Owens, J. B. (1977). "Diana at the Bar: Hunting, Aristocrats and the Law in Renaissance Castile." Sixteenth Century Journal 8,1 (1977): 17 36.
Research Interests: History, Landscape Ecology, Spanish Literature, Environmental Law, Medieval History, and 22 moreRenaissance Studies, Environmental Studies, Renaissance, Environmental History, Legal Anthropology, Legal History, Cultural Landscapes, Legal Pluralism, Spanish History, Lawyers, Land Law, Social History, European Legal History, Printing History, Anthropology of Hunting, Medieval Spain, Historia Social, Historia, Social Control, Aristocracy, Historia Moderna, and Historia Moderna De España
Owens, J. B. (2009). “Space, connections, and place in the First Global Age.” Sixteenth Century Journal 40, 1 (Spring): 190-192.
Research Interests: History, Economic History, Geography, Historical Geography, Social Networks, and 13 moreEarly Modern History, Historical GIS, Actor Network Theory, World History, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Geographically-Integrated History, Social Network Analysis (SNA), Actor Network Theory (ANT), Actor-Network-Theory, Actor-Network Theory, Spatial Humanities, Spatial History, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
"History Compass, 5, 6 (October 2007): 2014-2040; doi: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00476.x. This article was the focus of an online debate, “What can GIS offer World History?” (3-14 November 2008) which is available at the URL:... more
"History Compass, 5, 6 (October 2007): 2014-2040; doi: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00476.x.
This article was the focus of an online debate, “What can GIS offer World History?” (3-14 November 2008) which is available at the URL:
http://historycompass.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/debate-what-can-gis-offer-world-history/
In addition to comments submitted during the two-week period of the debate, the site also provides the following position papers that focus on Owens’ article:
Ian Gregory (University of Lancaster) - Position Paper PDF HTML
Stephen J. Hornsby (University of Maine) - Position Paper PDF HTML
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This article was the focus of an online debate, “What can GIS offer World History?” (3-14 November 2008) which is available at the URL:
http://historycompass.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/debate-what-can-gis-offer-world-history/
In addition to comments submitted during the two-week period of the debate, the site also provides the following position papers that focus on Owens’ article:
Ian Gregory (University of Lancaster) - Position Paper PDF HTML
Stephen J. Hornsby (University of Maine) - Position Paper PDF HTML
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ArcNews, 29, 2 (summer 2007): 4-6, and http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/summer07articles/what-historians-want.html This article is also a chapter in a book that is available for free download. GIS Best Practices: Essays on Geography... more
ArcNews, 29, 2 (summer 2007): 4-6, and
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/summer07articles/what-historians-want.html
This article is also a chapter in a book that is available for free download.
GIS Best Practices: Essays on Geography and GIS. Redlands, California: ESRI, 2008, pp. 35-46.
http://www.esri.com/library/bestpractices/essays-on-geography-gis.pdf
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/summer07articles/what-historians-want.html
This article is also a chapter in a book that is available for free download.
GIS Best Practices: Essays on Geography and GIS. Redlands, California: ESRI, 2008, pp. 35-46.
http://www.esri.com/library/bestpractices/essays-on-geography-gis.pdf
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ABSTRACT: This article discusses graduate education in geographically-integrated history as developed by the History Department of Idaho State University for its M.A. in Historical Resources Management. This Master’s program is based the... more
ABSTRACT: This article discusses graduate education in geographically-integrated history as developed by the History
Department of Idaho State University for its M.A. in Historical Resources Management. This Master’s program is based the use of geographic information systems (GIS) and related information technologies. In addition to discussing the rationale and design of the program, the article illustrates what is involved in graduate education of this type through a description of the author’s introductory graduate course “Geographic Information Systems in Historical Studies.”
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3310410.0013.105
Department of Idaho State University for its M.A. in Historical Resources Management. This Master’s program is based the use of geographic information systems (GIS) and related information technologies. In addition to discussing the rationale and design of the program, the article illustrates what is involved in graduate education of this type through a description of the author’s introductory graduate course “Geographic Information Systems in Historical Studies.”
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3310410.0013.105
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, European History, Military History, Economic History, and 28 moreGeography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Historical Geography, Urban Geography, Cartography, Economic Geography, Social Networks, Visualization, Medieval History, Portuguese Studies, Graduate Education, Historical GIS, Information Visualization, Education History, Nonlinear dynamics, History of Cartography, Spanish History, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Geographically-Integrated History, Complex Systems, Social Network Analysis (SNA), Social History, History Education, Islamic History, STEM Education, Data Visualization, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Research Interests: History, European History, Military History, Economic History, Collective Behavior, and 225 moreGeography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Historical Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Social Geography, Urban Geography, Environmental Geography, Cartography, Set Theory, Computer Science, Economic Geography, Ontology, Applied Ontology, Semantic Web Technologies, Travel Writing, French History, Digital Humanities, Social Networks, Social Sciences, Knowledge Management, Latin American and Caribbean History, Geomatics, GI Metadata, SDI (Spatial Data Infrastructure), Spatial Analysis, Spatial Modeling, Renaissance History, Creativity--Knowledge Invention & Discovery, Medieval History, Civilizational Collapses as Non-Linear System Avalanche Events, Violence, Coupled Human and Natural Systems, Women's History, Early Modern History, European Catholicism, Data Mining, Research Methodology, Database Systems, Graphs Theory, Graph Theory, Narrative, Portuguese History, Transport History, U.S. history, Historical GIS, Renaissance Studies, World Systems Analysis, Qualitative methodology, Actor Network Theory, Complexity Theory, Maritime History, Railway Transport, International Trade, Regional Science, Information Visualization, Business History, Contemporary History, Anthropology of Pilgrimage, Pilgrimage, Conflict, African Diaspora Studies, African History, Brazilian History, Atlantic World, Local History, Fuzzy Logic, Early Modern Portuguese History, Open Source Software, Diffusion of Innovations, Metadata, Portuguese Medieval History, Portuguese Discoveries and Expansion, History of Social Sciences, Ontology (Computer Science), Reformation History, Catholic Reform, Printing (Reformation Studies), Network governance, Transport Geography, Fuzzy set theory, Inquisition, Nonlinear dynamics, Geoinformatics, Emergent Phenomena, World History, Habsburg Studies, Medieval Iberian History, History of Cartography, Fuzzy rule-based modeling, Spanish History, Indian Ocean History, Mediterranean World, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Kinship (History), Geographically-Integrated History, Temporal GIS, Complexity Theory (History), Mediterranean Studies, History Portuguese and Spanish, Devotional Shrines, Slave Routes (History), Maritime Routes, Commercial Routes, Complex Systems, Connected History, Social Networks (History), Pilgrimage Routes, Dromography (Historic Routes Research), Silk Road, Silk Road Studies, Saints' Cults, Organized Crime, Narrative Methods, 17th-Century Studies, Cultural Historical Activity Theory, Automotive History, Factions (Early Modern History), Qualitative Spatial Reasoning, Transportation, Humanities Visualization, History of Sociability, 16th Century (History), Nobility, Archaeological GIS, Border Crossing, Social metadata (tagging, folksonomy), Soccer & World History, Early Modern Era, Social Ontology, International Cooperation, Early Modern Catholic Studies, Moriscos, Spain (Mediterranean Studies), Complex Networks, Global History, Microhistory, Social Network Analysis (SNA), Philosophy of Space, Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Saharan Archaeology, Ancient Geography, Early modern Ottoman History, History of the Family, Russian History, Social History, History of the Mediterranean, Information Technology and Economics, Factionalism, Semantic Web, Early Modern economic history, History of Colonial Mexico, Social Evolution, Early Modern economic and social history, Medieval Nobility, Early Modern France, Railway History--18th and early 19th Centuries, Adoption and Diffusion of innovations, Time geography, Courts and Elites (History), Iberian overseas expansion, Railway and Transportation History, Chinese history (History), Modern Spanish History, Spain (History), 16the century Mediterranean, Early Modern Catholicism, 17th Century Mediterranean, Atlantic history, 15th century Atlantic Europe, Borderlands Studies, Spatio Temporal Analysis, Semantic Search Engine, Heresy and Inquisition, Local knowledge systems, 16th century Europe, Merchants (Medieval Studies), Latin American Economic History, Iberian History, Material Culture, History of Colonial India, Railway history - twentieth century, Pilgrimage and travel to the Holy Land, Transnational Organized Crime, Fernand Braudel, Early modern Spain, Merchant communities, Early Modern print culture, Database Management Systems, Peacebuilding, The Spanish Inquisition, Data Visualization, Local and regional history, Merchant networks, Comparative and Connected History, Knowledge Discovery, Economic and Social History, Spatial History, Histoire, Medieval heresy, Early Modern Atlantic World (1500-1815), 16th century Venice, World-Systems Theory, Philosophy of Spacetime, Evolutionary History, late medieval and early modern history of European nobility and courts, Bourbon Spain, Spanish Monarchy, Silk Road Archaeology, Archaeology of the Silk Road, Social and Economic History, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Habsburg Monarchy, History of (Early) Modern Nobility, administrative history, Railway History, Contraband Trade, Judeoconversos, Morisques, Widows and Widowhood, Religio-Political Factionalism, History and Ethnology of Mediterranean Sea, Early Modern Iberian Atlantic, Merchants and Businessmen, World System, Merchants and Merchant Colonies, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Free download: http://digitalcommons.asphs.net/bsphs/vol40/iss1/2/ Free download: Villuga Gazetteer of the 16th-century Iberian Peninsula: http://www.isu.edu/history/hibberdgazetteer.shtml It is frequently difficult to write a... more
Free download: http://digitalcommons.asphs.net/bsphs/vol40/iss1/2/
Free download: Villuga Gazetteer of the 16th-century Iberian Peninsula:
http://www.isu.edu/history/hibberdgazetteer.shtml
It is frequently difficult to write a geographically-integrated history of Portugal and Spain prior to the late nineteenth century because researchers often lack a means by which to identify the locations of historical places on the basis of the geographic coordinates of their modern counterparts. This article presents a free, downloadable digital gazetteer, which the authors have founded on a 1546 traveler's guide to 139 major routes in " Spain " (as the Iberian Peninsula was then known), in which the author, Juan Pedro Villuga, listed each stopping place along each route and indicated the approximate distance between each of them. The authors explain the technical problems of gazetteer and database design and of associating historic placenames with their modern equivalents and geographic coordinates of longitude and latitude, and of visualizing them in geographic information systems (GIS). In the gazetteer, the authors link the sixteenth-century Iberian place names with more modern ones, which were largely solidified in the modern country of Spain by the territorial organization in 1834. More importantly, the authors offer suggestions about how this type of research infrastructure can be used to address various historical problems in Portuguese and Spanish history, which are related to geographic space, topography, and distance.
Free download: Villuga Gazetteer of the 16th-century Iberian Peninsula:
http://www.isu.edu/history/hibberdgazetteer.shtml
It is frequently difficult to write a geographically-integrated history of Portugal and Spain prior to the late nineteenth century because researchers often lack a means by which to identify the locations of historical places on the basis of the geographic coordinates of their modern counterparts. This article presents a free, downloadable digital gazetteer, which the authors have founded on a 1546 traveler's guide to 139 major routes in " Spain " (as the Iberian Peninsula was then known), in which the author, Juan Pedro Villuga, listed each stopping place along each route and indicated the approximate distance between each of them. The authors explain the technical problems of gazetteer and database design and of associating historic placenames with their modern equivalents and geographic coordinates of longitude and latitude, and of visualizing them in geographic information systems (GIS). In the gazetteer, the authors link the sixteenth-century Iberian place names with more modern ones, which were largely solidified in the modern country of Spain by the territorial organization in 1834. More importantly, the authors offer suggestions about how this type of research infrastructure can be used to address various historical problems in Portuguese and Spanish history, which are related to geographic space, topography, and distance.
Research Interests: History, European History, Economic History, Geography, Human Geography, and 28 moreHistorical Geography, Urban Geography, Economic Geography, Historical Archaeology, Digital Humanities, Social Networks, Islamic Archaeology, Spatial Analysis, Early Modern History, Portuguese History, World Systems Analysis, Space and Place, Transportation Studies, World History, Spanish History, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Geographically-Integrated History, Caravanserais, Dromography (Historic Routes Research), Travel Behaviour, Social Network Analysis (SNA), Pilgrimage and travel to the Holy Land, Travel, Traveling, Spatial Humanities, Gazetteers, Spatial Story Telling, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
This paper discusses the development of a digital gazetteer, which the authors have founded on a 1546 traveler’s guide to 139 major routes in “Spain” (as the Iberian Peninsula was then known), in which the author, Juan Pedro Villuga,... more
This paper discusses the development of a digital gazetteer, which the authors have founded on a 1546 traveler’s guide to 139 major routes in “Spain” (as the Iberian Peninsula was then known), in which the author, Juan Pedro Villuga, listed each stopping place along each route and indicated the approximate distant between each of them. The authors explain the technical problems of gazetteer and database design and of associating historic place names with their modern equivalents and geographic coordinates of longitude and latitude. More importantly, they offer suggestions about how this type of research infrastructure can be used to address various historical problems in Portuguese and Spanish history related to geographic space, topography, and distance.
This paper will discuss the development of a digital gazetteer, which the authors have founded on a 1546 traveler’s guide to 139 major routes in “Spain” (as the Iberian Peninsula was then known), in which the author, Juan Pedro Villuga,... more
This paper will discuss the development of a digital gazetteer, which the authors have founded on a 1546 traveler’s guide to 139 major routes in “Spain” (as the Iberian Peninsula was then known), in which the author, Juan Pedro Villuga, listed each stopping place along each route and indicated the approximate distant between each of them. The authors will explain the technical problems of gazetteer and database design and of associating historic place names with their modern equivalents and geographic coordinates of longitude and latitude. More importantly, they will offer suggestions about how this type of research infrastructure can be used to address various historical problems in Portuguese and Spanish history related to geographic space, topography, and distance.
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Villuga Gazetteer of the 16th-century Iberian Peninsula available now for free download
http://www.isu.edu/history/hibberdgazetteer.shtml
http://www.isu.edu/history/hibberdgazetteer.shtml
Research Interests: History, European History, Economic History, Geography, Historical Geography, and 20 moreHistorical Archaeology, Digital Humanities, Early Modern History, Portuguese History, Space and Place, Transportation Studies, Pilgrimage, Spanish History, Pilgrimage Routes, Archaeological GIS, Printing History, Geographic Information Science, Iberian History, Cooperation, Archaeology of pilgrimage, Gazetteers, Sixteenth Century History, Geospatial Information, HIGHWAY ROADS AND BRIDGES, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
This paper discusses the development of a digital gazetteer that can be used to link sixteenth-century Iberian place-names with more modern ones, which were largely solidified in the modern country of Spain by a territorial reorganization... more
This paper discusses the development of a digital gazetteer that can be used to link sixteenth-century Iberian place-names with more modern ones, which were largely solidified in the modern country of Spain by a territorial reorganization of 1834. Through GIS visualization, Hibberd compares the modern names with their sixteenth-century ancestors and analyzes regional and temporal patterns of place-names and the possible reasons behind individual placename changes. Finally, he discusses solutions to gazetteer and database design problems revealed during the project.
The Iberian Peninsula witnessed significant changes during the phase transition between the first global age, 1400-1800, and the following period. This transformation had a major impact on place-names, which makes it difficult to write a geographically-integrated history of the earlier period if researchers lack a means by which to identify the locations of historic places on the basis of the coordinates of their modern counterparts. Hibberd founds the gazetteer on a 1546 traveler's guide to 139 major routes in "Spain" (as the Iberian Peninsula was then known), in which the author, Juan Pedro Villuga, listed each stopping place along each route and indicated the approximate distant between each of them. As a case study, in order to create a greater density of sixteenth-century place-names to compare with those used in the 1834 reorganization, Hibberd has added to the gazetteer those from the relaciones topográficas of the provinces of Cuenca and Toledo, which were responses from self-governing municipalities to a royal questionnaire from the 1570s.
The Iberian Peninsula witnessed significant changes during the phase transition between the first global age, 1400-1800, and the following period. This transformation had a major impact on place-names, which makes it difficult to write a geographically-integrated history of the earlier period if researchers lack a means by which to identify the locations of historic places on the basis of the coordinates of their modern counterparts. Hibberd founds the gazetteer on a 1546 traveler's guide to 139 major routes in "Spain" (as the Iberian Peninsula was then known), in which the author, Juan Pedro Villuga, listed each stopping place along each route and indicated the approximate distant between each of them. As a case study, in order to create a greater density of sixteenth-century place-names to compare with those used in the 1834 reorganization, Hibberd has added to the gazetteer those from the relaciones topográficas of the provinces of Cuenca and Toledo, which were responses from self-governing municipalities to a royal questionnaire from the 1570s.
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This paper discusses the development of a digital gazetteer that can be used to link sixteenth-century Iberian place-names with more modern ones, which were largely solidified in the modern country of Spain by a territorial reorganization... more
This paper discusses the development of a digital gazetteer that can be used to link sixteenth-century Iberian place-names with more modern ones, which were largely solidified in the modern country of Spain by a territorial reorganization of 1834. Through GIS visualization, Hibberd compares the modern names with their sixteenth-century ancestors and analyzes regional and temporal patterns of place-names and the possible reasons behind individual place-name changes. Finally, he discusses solutions to gazetteer and database design problems revealed during the project.
The Iberian Peninsula witnessed significant changes during the phase transition between the first global age, 1400-1800, and the following period. This transformation had a major impact on place-names, which makes it difficult to write a geographically-integrated history of the earlier period if researchers lack a means by which to identify the locations of historic places on the basis of the coordinates of their modern counterparts. Hibberd founds the gazetteer on a 1546 traveler's guide to 139 major routes in "Spain" (as the Iberian Peninsula was then known), in which the author, Juan Pedro Villuga, listed each stopping place along each route and indicated the approximate distant between each of them. As a case study, in order to create a greater density of sixteenth-century place-names to compare with those used in the 1834 reorganization, Hibberd has added to the gazetteer those from the relaciones topográficas of the provinces of Cuenca and Toledo, which were responses from self-governing municipalities to a royal questionnaire from the 1570s.
The Iberian Peninsula witnessed significant changes during the phase transition between the first global age, 1400-1800, and the following period. This transformation had a major impact on place-names, which makes it difficult to write a geographically-integrated history of the earlier period if researchers lack a means by which to identify the locations of historic places on the basis of the coordinates of their modern counterparts. Hibberd founds the gazetteer on a 1546 traveler's guide to 139 major routes in "Spain" (as the Iberian Peninsula was then known), in which the author, Juan Pedro Villuga, listed each stopping place along each route and indicated the approximate distant between each of them. As a case study, in order to create a greater density of sixteenth-century place-names to compare with those used in the 1834 reorganization, Hibberd has added to the gazetteer those from the relaciones topográficas of the provinces of Cuenca and Toledo, which were responses from self-governing municipalities to a royal questionnaire from the 1570s.
This paper, "The Emergence of Cooperation in Southeastern Spain, 15th to 17th Century: Innovation in Nonlinear, Nonfiction Historical Narrative" (working title), introduces my current book project. In order to create narrative forms that... more
This paper, "The Emergence of Cooperation in Southeastern Spain, 15th to 17th Century: Innovation in Nonlinear, Nonfiction Historical Narrative" (working title), introduces my current book project. In order to create narrative forms that will express better the nonlinear processes from which cooperation emerged, I analyze films of the French "Nouvelle Vague" (especially those of Jean-Luc Godard and Agnès Varda), the early novels of Patrick Modiano, and books that influenced them: for example, Jean-Paul Sartre’s book Situations, I (1947) and the French translations by Maurice Coindreau of two of William Faulkner’s novels (1938, 1952).
Research Interests: European History, Complex Systems Science, Social Networks, French Cinema, Violence, and 22 moreEarly Modern History, Narrative, Historical GIS, World Systems Analysis, Literature and cinema, Nonlinear dynamics, World History, Spanish History, Geographically-Integrated History, Complex Systems, Narrative Methods, Political Violence, Political Corruption, Social Network Analysis (SNA), Cinema, Narrative Theory, Cooperation, Cinema Studies, World-Systems Analysis, Corruption, Monarquía Hispánica, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
"Spanish Christian Sacred Sites: from the library to interoperable web services (WMS – WFS): Creation of an Interoperable Information Layer on Spanish Christian Shrines" J. Owens [1], A. Barral Rojo [2], M. Castejón Cay [2], D. Ballari... more
"Spanish Christian Sacred Sites: from the library to interoperable web services (WMS – WFS): Creation of an Interoperable Information Layer on Spanish Christian Shrines"
J. Owens [1], A. Barral Rojo [2], M. Castejón Cay [2], D. Ballari [2], M. Manso Callejo [2], M. Bernabé Poveda [2]
[1] Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
[2] Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Paper published in Proceedings of GIS Planet 2005, 30 May-2 June 2005, Estoril, Portugal
J. Owens [1], A. Barral Rojo [2], M. Castejón Cay [2], D. Ballari [2], M. Manso Callejo [2], M. Bernabé Poveda [2]
[1] Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
[2] Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Paper published in Proceedings of GIS Planet 2005, 30 May-2 June 2005, Estoril, Portugal
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"Historians lack an adequate research infrastructure to support collaborative research, which is becoming more common in the discipline. Moreover, in the broad area of Digital History, historians are collaborating more often with those in... more
"Historians lack an adequate research infrastructure to support collaborative research, which is becoming more common in the discipline. Moreover, in the broad area of Digital History, historians are collaborating more often with those in other disciplines. To avoid misunderstandings, which can destroy collaboration, historians require adequate guidelines about key areas, such as joint publication and data sharing. As a basis for discussion by professional history associations, I propose such standards.
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Research Interests: History, American History, Digital Humanities, Social Research Methods and Methodology, Research Methods and Methodology, and 26 moreResearch Methodology, Research Ethics, Interdisciplinarity, Graduate Education, Historical GIS, World Systems Analysis, Collaboration, Digital History, World History, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Complex Systems, Quantitative Research, Qualitative Research, Complex Networks, Latin American History, History Education, Interdisciplinary Higher Education, United States History, Arts-sciences interdisciplinarity, Research Organization & Management, Authorship, Interdisciplinary History, Interdisciplinary research (Social Sciences), Collaborative Research, Big Data, and Big Data Analytics
"These standards for collaborative research were created for two reasons. First, they are the guidelines for data sharing and joint publication within the multidisciplinary, multinational research project DynCoopNet. Second, relevant... more
"These standards for collaborative research were created for two reasons. First, they are the guidelines for data sharing and joint publication within the multidisciplinary, multinational research project DynCoopNet. Second, relevant DynCoopNet members are proposing these standards to national and international organizations of researchers in history, the humanities, and the historical social sciences in order to provide a more robust research infrastructure for the collaborative research that is necessary for dealing with significant problems of world history, historical periodization, and the application of modern technologies of information management and visualization. Such collaborative research is now possible on a wide scale due to modern systems of professional communication. DynCoopNet hopes that researchers outside of our network will also petition their professional organizations to adopt these standards or something similar if adequate standards are not already available.
DynCoopNet is one of the five projects of the European Science Foundation's EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme program "The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading" (TECT).
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DynCoopNet is one of the five projects of the European Science Foundation's EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme program "The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading" (TECT).
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Journal of the Association for History and Computing, 8, 2 (September 2005) http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/2005/issue2/articles/owenswoodworth.php This article presents the design of the innovative graduate program in... more
Journal of the Association for History and Computing, 8, 2 (September 2005)
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/2005/issue2/articles/owenswoodworth.php
This article presents the design of the innovative graduate program in geographically-integrated history of Idaho State University. The program has been approved and is in operation. For details, visit:
http://www.isu.edu/departments/history/gradprogram.shtml
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/2005/issue2/articles/owenswoodworth.php
This article presents the design of the innovative graduate program in geographically-integrated history of Idaho State University. The program has been approved and is in operation. For details, visit:
http://www.isu.edu/departments/history/gradprogram.shtml
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Journal of the Association for History and Computing, 8, 2 (September 2005) http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/2005/issue2/articles/owenswoodresources.php This paper contains the resources that accompanied the article presenting the design of... more
Journal of the Association for History and Computing, 8, 2 (September 2005)
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/2005/issue2/articles/owenswoodresources.php
This paper contains the resources that accompanied the article presenting the design of the innovative graduate program in geographically-integrated history of Idaho State University. The program has been approved and is in operation. For details, visit:
http://www.isu.edu/departments/history/gradprogram.shtml
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/2005/issue2/articles/owenswoodresources.php
This paper contains the resources that accompanied the article presenting the design of the innovative graduate program in geographically-integrated history of Idaho State University. The program has been approved and is in operation. For details, visit:
http://www.isu.edu/departments/history/gradprogram.shtml
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ArcNews (Fall 2005) http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall05articles/idaho-state-univ.html This article announced the approval of the innovative graduate program in geographically-integrated history of Idaho State University. The program... more
ArcNews (Fall 2005)
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall05articles/idaho-state-univ.html
This article announced the approval of the innovative graduate program in geographically-integrated history of Idaho State University. The program is now in operation. For details, visit:
http://www.isu.edu/departments/history/gradprogram.shtml
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall05articles/idaho-state-univ.html
This article announced the approval of the innovative graduate program in geographically-integrated history of Idaho State University. The program is now in operation. For details, visit:
http://www.isu.edu/departments/history/gradprogram.shtml
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"This paper was distributed through the list DynCoopNet in an effort to coordinate research among the partners of the research project “Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Commercial Networks in the First Global Age... more
"This paper was distributed through the list DynCoopNet in an effort to coordinate research among the partners of the research project “Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Commercial Networks in the First Global Age [1400-1800]” (acronym DynCoopNet). The DynCoopNet project is part of the European Science Foundation’s EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme program “The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading” (TECT). It was posted just after the TECT launch conference in Budapest, Hungary, in early July 2007. The paper poses queries about types of information potentially available in historical sources and provides a selected bibliography.
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Report on the TECT Conference at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria, 15-18 September 2009. Conference title: “Evolution of Cooperation: Models and Theories”; prepared especially for the... more
Report on the TECT Conference at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria, 15-18 September 2009. Conference title: “Evolution of Cooperation: Models and Theories”; prepared especially for the nineteen core researchers of the TECT project “Dynamic complexity of self-organizing, cooperation-based commercial networks in the first global age”, who were excluded from participation by the collapse of TECT networking funds. The DynCoopNet Project within TECT focuses on cooperation within the networks linking the global domains of Iberian Monarchies during the First Global Age, 1400-1800.
Research Interests: History, Collective Behavior, Social Theory, Game Theory, Early Modern History, and 34 moreTransnational and World History, Game Theory (Psychology), Portuguese History, Evolution of cooperation (Evolutionary Biology), Trust, Self-Organization, Cooperation (Evolutionary Psychology), Cooperation and Conflict, Theoretical Psychology, Early Modern Portuguese History, Social Capital, World History, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Trust Theory (Evolution of cooperation), Complex Systems, Reputation (Reputation), International Cooperation, Evolutionary Game Theory, Altruism, Behavioural Game Theory, Economics of Trust, Social Evolution, International cooperation policy, History of the Portuguese Empire, Trust Economics, Spain (History), Organizational Trust, Social Trust, Conceptualisations of Trust, Trust (Psychology), Behavioral Game Theory, Early modern Spain, Cooperation, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Owens, J. B. & Polónia da Silva, Amélia, “Scientific Report: TECT Networking Workshop (University of Porto, Portugal), 26-29 March 2008; “Trust, Reputation, Defectors, and Sustaining Social Norms: Studying spatially complex cooperative... more
Owens, J. B. & Polónia da Silva, Amélia, “Scientific Report: TECT Networking Workshop (University of Porto, Portugal), 26-29 March 2008; “Trust, Reputation, Defectors, and Sustaining Social Norms: Studying spatially complex cooperative relationships in ways that connect TECT projects” [23 pages; 11,000 words]. Prepared for the European Science Foundation’s EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme’s program “The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading” (TECT), Strasbourg, France, 1 June 2008.
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This brief paper explains in Spanish the collaborative multidisciplinary and multinational research project "Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Commercial Networks in the First Global Age" (DynCoopNet), which is one... more
This brief paper explains in Spanish the collaborative multidisciplinary and multinational research project "Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Commercial Networks in the First Global Age" (DynCoopNet), which is one of five projects in the European Science Foundation's EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme program "The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading" (TECT). This explanation was provided as part of the preparation for a meeting of the DynCoopNet Portuguese and Spanish teams that was held in Madrid on 30 May 2008.
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"This is the scientific report written in Spanish by Dr. Ana Crespo Solana of the Institute of History, Superior Council of Scientific Research, Madrid, Spain. Dr. Crespo Solana is the co-project leader of the research project "Dynamic... more
"This is the scientific report written in Spanish by Dr. Ana Crespo Solana of the Institute of History, Superior Council of Scientific Research, Madrid, Spain. Dr. Crespo Solana is the co-project leader of the research project "Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Commercial Networks in the First Global Age" (DynCoopNet), one of five projects of the European Science Foundation's EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme program "The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading" (TECT). The report details the results of a joint meeting of DynCoopNet's Portuguese and Spanish teams.
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This paper provides an elementary guide to how to prepare tables of data about historic routes, a gazetteer of historic place names, metadata, and tables for a relational database. It was originally distributed through the DynCoopNet... more
This paper provides an elementary guide to how to prepare tables of data about historic routes, a gazetteer of historic place names, metadata, and tables for a relational database. It was originally distributed through the DynCoopNet listserv in four parts. The paper provides a response to questions that were implied or raised during a meeting of the DynCoopNet Portuguese and Spanish teams in Madrid, 30 May 2008, called by DynCoopNet’s co-project leader Ana Crespo Solana. The project “Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Commercial Networks in the First Global Age” (DynCoopNet) if one of five projects of the European Science Foundation’s EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme program “The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading” (TECT).
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"Scientific Report: ESF Eurocores Workshop: Visualisation and Space-Time Representation of Dynamic, Non-linear, Spatial Data in DynCoopNet and Other TECT Projects, 25-26 September 2008, Technical University of Madrid (submitted 15... more
"Scientific Report: ESF Eurocores Workshop: Visualisation and Space-Time Representation of Dynamic, Non-linear, Spatial Data in DynCoopNet and Other TECT Projects, 25-26 September 2008, Technical University of Madrid (submitted 15 November 2008)
This workshop was designed as a strategic workshop for all of the multinational, multidisciplinary projects of the European Science Foundation's EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme program "The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading" (TECT). It was hosted by the TECT project "Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Commercial Networks in the First Global Age" (DynCoopNet). DynCoopNet members had observed that all TECT projects have components involving spatial data but inadequate means to analyze and visualize this data and that DynCoopNet was the strongest of the projects in this regard. The Scientific Report includes the program, a description of the contributions and of a plenary discussion, and a report on a meeting of DynCoopNet members who were present.
This workshop was designed as a strategic workshop for all of the multinational, multidisciplinary projects of the European Science Foundation's EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme program "The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading" (TECT). It was hosted by the TECT project "Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Commercial Networks in the First Global Age" (DynCoopNet). DynCoopNet members had observed that all TECT projects have components involving spatial data but inadequate means to analyze and visualize this data and that DynCoopNet was the strongest of the projects in this regard. The Scientific Report includes the program, a description of the contributions and of a plenary discussion, and a report on a meeting of DynCoopNet members who were present.
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Position paper for the National Endowment for the Humanities workshop “Visualizing the Past: Tools and Techniques for Understanding Historical Processes,” 20-21 February 2009, University of Richmond, Virginia, USA Computational thinking... more
Position paper for the National Endowment for the Humanities workshop “Visualizing the Past: Tools and Techniques for Understanding Historical Processes,” 20-21 February 2009, University of Richmond, Virginia, USA
Computational thinking has enabled many new scientific discoveries through the development of new algorithms, simulation models, visualization, and novel approaches to summarize the patterns and structure of complex systems. In contrast to the natural sciences, the historical social sciences (anthropology/archaeology, economics, geography, history, and sociology) pose additional challenges because data are often qualitative, vague, inconclusive, and highly uncertain. Existing computational methods reach their limits quickly with data for the historical social sciences. The authors are developing geographically-integrated history methods to overcome these limits by addressing the importance of "place" to integrate data as the foundation of knowledge creation about how humans, events, and environments were connected to form historical narratives within and across places. Narratives are considered one of the unique and effective forms of knowledge and communication. Narratives enhance the understanding of causality by relating it to time and place and of the exceptional, such as the emergence of new forms, and they illuminate the factors producing innovation and entrepreneurship. Dynamics GIS (geographic information systems) and related information and visualization technologies will provide the backbone for understanding geographically integrated complex systems within which social networks developed historically.
Computational thinking has enabled many new scientific discoveries through the development of new algorithms, simulation models, visualization, and novel approaches to summarize the patterns and structure of complex systems. In contrast to the natural sciences, the historical social sciences (anthropology/archaeology, economics, geography, history, and sociology) pose additional challenges because data are often qualitative, vague, inconclusive, and highly uncertain. Existing computational methods reach their limits quickly with data for the historical social sciences. The authors are developing geographically-integrated history methods to overcome these limits by addressing the importance of "place" to integrate data as the foundation of knowledge creation about how humans, events, and environments were connected to form historical narratives within and across places. Narratives are considered one of the unique and effective forms of knowledge and communication. Narratives enhance the understanding of causality by relating it to time and place and of the exceptional, such as the emergence of new forms, and they illuminate the factors producing innovation and entrepreneurship. Dynamics GIS (geographic information systems) and related information and visualization technologies will provide the backbone for understanding geographically integrated complex systems within which social networks developed historically.
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The paper presents three complementary perspectives, which the authors argue should become research priorities for the development of space-time representations of complex networks.
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Kantabutra, V., Owens, J. B., and Crespo-Solana, A. (2014) “Intentionally-Linked Entities: a better database system for representing dynamic social networks, narrative geographic information, and general abstractions of reality.” In... more
Kantabutra, V., Owens, J. B., and Crespo-Solana, A. (2014) “Intentionally-Linked Entities: a better database system for representing dynamic social networks, narrative geographic information, and general abstractions of reality.” In *Spatio-temporal Narratives: HGIS and the Study of Trading Networks (1500 - 1800)*. Crespo Solana, Ana (Ed.), UK: Cambridge Scholars Press (http://www.c-s-p.org), pp. 56-78.
Research Interests: Information Systems, History, Information Technology, Ontology, Business Networks, and 10 moreDatabase Systems, Historical GIS, Ontology (Computer Science), World History, Geographically-Integrated History, Archaeological GIS, Global History, Social Network Analysis (SNA), Databases, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
We are developing tools, which will permit us to move from data to knowledge that will increase our understanding of complex, nonlinear, human systems, such as that of the First Global Age, 1400-1800, and about how such systems are... more
We are developing tools, which will permit us to move from data to knowledge that will increase our understanding of complex, nonlinear, human systems, such as that of the First Global Age, 1400-1800, and about how such systems are coupled to complex natural systems. The existing software tools for social network analysis (SNA) and geographic information systems (GIS) do not provide for historians and historical social scientists an adequate basis for narrative spatio-temporal analysis. Nor have researchers been able to generate cartographic visualizations or other abstractions of reality to help us comprehend dynamic human or natural history as well as we would like. The characteristics of the database management systems (DBMS) we normally use to represent our information, our perception of the real world, form a fundamental barrier to dynamic analysis of systems. In this chapter, we present our database scheme, Intentionally-Linked Entities (ILE), which permits users to model the dynamic reality of the real world in ways superior to what is possible with all other available database management systems. ILE can serve as a general, all-purpose database management scheme, but it embodies characteristics that make it particularly useful for the creation of complicated narratives about social networks within a dynamic geographic environment. ILE also offers a platform for ontological research, which is necessary for the effective integration of information from multiple databases embodying partial abstractions of world history and prepared by unconnected researchers.
Research Interests: Economic History, Cartography, Relational Database, Complex Systems Science, Social Research Methods and Methodology, and 30 moreResearch Methods and Methodology, Early Modern History, Research Methodology, Database Systems, Historical GIS, Colonial America, International Trade, Information Visualization, Atlantic World, Eighteenth Century History, Nonlinear dynamics, World History, Spanish History, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Geographically-Integrated History, Temporal GIS, Complex Systems, History of The Netherlands, Global History, Social Network Analysis (SNA), Graph Database, Databases, Atlantic history, Spatio Temporal Analysis, History of the Spanish-Habsburg Netherlands, Family history, Database Management Systems, Bifurcation, Stability and Chaos, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Research Interests: History, Geography, Human Geography, Relational Database, Database Systems, and 13 moreHistorical GIS, Temporal GIS, Spatial Databases, Archaeological GIS, Spatio-Temporal Databases, Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Temporal Databases, Environmental GIS, Databases, HGIS, Geomatic Engineering, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Data Format
This panel will provide historians with an orientation to some of the issues involved in selecting and representing world-historical information in databases. Examples will be drawn largely from research on the planetary Hispanic Monarchy... more
This panel will provide historians with an orientation to some of the issues involved in selecting and representing world-historical information in databases. Examples will be drawn largely from research on the planetary Hispanic Monarchy of the First Global Age. The goal is to stimulate a lively discussion with the audience. This document provides the panel organization, the titles and abstracts of the three papers, and closes with brief bios of all participants.
Research Interests: Social Networks, World Systems Analysis, Migration, Eighteenth Century History, World History, and 15 moreSpanish History, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Complex Systems, Global History, Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Migration History, Early Modern economic and social history, Basque History, Databases, Atlantic history, Trade, Database Management Systems, Commerce, Aristocracy, and Monarquía Hispánica
Paper for the World History Association conference, Bilbao, Spain, 23-25 June 2022, as part of session D1, Databases for World Historical Information about Distance, Mobility, and Migration (Friday, 24 June, 16.30-18.00). This paper... more
Paper for the World History Association conference, Bilbao, Spain, 23-25 June 2022, as part of session D1, Databases for World Historical Information about Distance, Mobility, and Migration (Friday, 24 June, 16.30-18.00). This paper introduces a metaphor/model for a world history greater than the sum of its parts. The metaphor guides us to the necessary historical information and suggests the sort of database required for its representation.
I base this metaphor on a pair of linked visualizations created by theoretical biologist C. H. Waddington (1905-1975) to model the morphogenesis of tissues and organs from a fertilized egg. The first illustration displays the landscape, a surface with hills and valleys through which a ball rolls, representing the process. The second illustration reveals from below that the landscape’s features are the expression of genes, which are linked together by strings.
I use the first illustration to represent a complex, nonlinear, human system in which the various features respond to variables with which the ball (some historical process) interacts as it rolls in time through the space. From below, Waddington’s genes are now system variables, still connected by strings so that perturbations in a variable will be communicated to other variables, altering the landscape and the ball’s path. A few of the variables, called “control variables,” are always near instability, and if one or more of them becomes unstable, the entire system enters a “phase transition” out of which a new human system emerges. To understand the historical processes, we require narrative knowledge, with which, for clarity, the paper will tie the metaphor to historical examples drawn from the First Global Age, 1400-1800. The PowerPoint and reading version of the paper will be uploaded after the session.
I base this metaphor on a pair of linked visualizations created by theoretical biologist C. H. Waddington (1905-1975) to model the morphogenesis of tissues and organs from a fertilized egg. The first illustration displays the landscape, a surface with hills and valleys through which a ball rolls, representing the process. The second illustration reveals from below that the landscape’s features are the expression of genes, which are linked together by strings.
I use the first illustration to represent a complex, nonlinear, human system in which the various features respond to variables with which the ball (some historical process) interacts as it rolls in time through the space. From below, Waddington’s genes are now system variables, still connected by strings so that perturbations in a variable will be communicated to other variables, altering the landscape and the ball’s path. A few of the variables, called “control variables,” are always near instability, and if one or more of them becomes unstable, the entire system enters a “phase transition” out of which a new human system emerges. To understand the historical processes, we require narrative knowledge, with which, for clarity, the paper will tie the metaphor to historical examples drawn from the First Global Age, 1400-1800. The PowerPoint and reading version of the paper will be uploaded after the session.
Research Interests: Algorithms, Evolutionary Economics, Social Networks, Database Systems, Narrative, and 15 moreWorld Systems Analysis, Complexity Theory, Self-Organization, Cooperation and Conflict, Nonlinear dynamics, World History, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Complex Systems, Complexity, Cultural Evolution, Global History, Evolution and Human Behavior, Emergence, Cooperation, and Nonlinear Analysis
Document revised. The panel is now E3 in the conference program. A room has now been assigned: Elhuyar (Bizkaia Aretoa: University of the Basque Country). The title of paper #3 has been revised; it is now: AtlantoCracies: A New Approach... more
Document revised. The panel is now E3 in the conference program. A room has now been assigned: Elhuyar (Bizkaia Aretoa: University of the Basque Country). The title of paper #3 has been revised; it is now: AtlantoCracies: A New Approach to the Use of Document-Oriented Databases in Historical Research. This panel will provide historians with an orientation to some of the issues involved in selecting and representing world-historical information in databases. Examples will be drawn largely from research on the planetary Hispanic Monarchy of the First Global Age, 1400-1800. The goal is to stimulate a lively discussion with the audience. This document provides the panel organization, the titles and abstracts of the three papers, and closes with brief bios of all participants.
Research Interests: Economic History, Social Networks, World Systems Analysis, Migration, Eighteenth Century History, and 15 moreWorld History, Spanish History, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Complex Systems, Global History, Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Migration Studies, Migration History, Basque History, Databases, Atlantic history, Trade, Database Management Systems, Aristocracy, and Monarquía Hispánica
"Program of the 2010 annual meeting of the project "Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS" [SOCNET], funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation for four... more
"Program of the 2010 annual meeting of the project "Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS" [SOCNET], funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation for four years, $1,761,897 (OCI-0941371, Idaho State University, $1,290,704, J. B. Owens lead PI) and (OCI-0941501, University of Oklahoma, May Yuan PI).
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"Program of the 2011 annual meeting of the project "Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS" [SOCNET], funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation for four... more
"Program of the 2011 annual meeting of the project "Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS" [SOCNET], funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation for four years, $1,761,897 (OCI-0941371, Idaho State University, $1,290,704, J. B. Owens lead PI) and (OCI-0941501, University of Oklahoma, May Yuan PI).
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"Program of the March 2012 workshop of the project "Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS" [SOCNET], funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation for four... more
"Program of the March 2012 workshop of the project "Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS" [SOCNET], funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation for four years, $1,761,897 (OCI-0941371, Idaho State University, $1,290,704, J. B. Owens lead PI) and (OCI-0941501, University of Oklahoma, May Yuan PI).
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Research Interests: Cartography, Complex Systems Science, Semantic Web Technologies, Social Networks, Text Mining, and 7 moreFirst Global Age, 1400-1800, Geographically-Integrated History, Symbolism, Semantic Web technology - Ontologies, Semantic Web, Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
"Program of the 2012 annual meeting of the project "Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS" [SOCNET], funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation for four... more
"Program of the 2012 annual meeting of the project "Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS" [SOCNET], funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation for four years, $1,761,897 (OCI-0941371, Idaho State University, $1,290,704, J. B. Owens lead PI) and (OCI-0941501, University of Oklahoma, May Yuan PI).
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J. B. Owens (2008) Review of Jesús María Usunáriz Espan~a y sus tratados internacionales: 1516-1700, in Sixteenth Century Journal, 39(3): 840-2.
Research Interests: Latin American and Caribbean History, War Studies, Reformation History, History of the Reformation, History of Roman Catholicism, and 15 moreEarly Modern France, Sicily (History), Spain (History), Portugal (History), Holy Roman Empire, Early modern Spain, Law of Treaties, The Kingdom of Naples, History of the Low Countries, Catholic Church History, Papacy (Early Modern and Modern Church History), Counter-Reformation, History of Genoa, History of Milan, and Ducato di Milano
J. B. Owens (2008) Review of Bartolomé Yun, Marte contra Minerva: El precio del Imperio espan~ol, c. 1450-1600, in Journal of Modern History, 80(3): 696-7.
Research Interests: Latin American and Caribbean History, War Studies, Ottoman Empire, History of the Mediterranean, Spain (History), and 11 moreFiscal History, Atlantic history, Empire, Latin American Economic History, Pacific History, Portugal (History), Spain, Early modern Spain, Colonial Latin American History, History of the Low Countries, and História de Portugal
J. B. Owens_2009-Review of Oscar Mazín, Gestores de la Real Justicia: Procuradores y agentes de las catedrales Hispanas nuevas en la corte de Madrid.
Research Interests: Social Networks, Administrative History, Mexico History, Spain (History), Atlantic history, and 9 moreEarly modern Spain, Colonial Latin American History, Ecclesiastical History, Catholic Church History, Historia de Madrid, Sixteenth Century History, Historia de México, Sixteenth Century New Spain, and Early Modern Embassies
J. B. Owens (2010) Review of Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook, The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville.
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J. B. Owens_ 2010_Review of José I. Fortea and Juan E. Gelabert_Ciudades en conflicto (Siglos XVI-XVII)
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J. B. Owens-Review of Richard L. Kagan, Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth Century Spain. In Sixteenth Century Journal 22,4 (1991): 801-802.
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J. B. Owens-Review of Helen Nader, Liberty in Absolutist Spain: The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700. In Sixteenth Century Journal 22,4 (1991): 871-872.
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J. B. Owens- Review of Jean Pierre Dedieu, L'Administration de la foi: L'Inquisition de Tolède (XVIe - XVIIIe siècle). In Sixteenth Century Journal 22,1 (1991): 141-142.
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* Review of David R. Ringrose, Spain, Europe, and the "Spanish Miracle," 1700-1900. In American Historical Review 102,3 (June 1997): 833-834.
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* Review of Christopher Chase Dunn and Thomas D. Hall, Rise and Demise: Comparing World Systems. In Sixteenth Century Journal 28,4 (1997): 1486-1487.
Research Interests: Economic History, Social Networks, World Systems Analysis, International Trade, Comparative History, and 11 moreWorld History, Modeling and Simulation, Global History, Social Network Analysis (SNA), Social History, Comparative Historical Analysis, Historia Social, Civilization, World-Systems Analysis, World-Systems Theory, and Historical and Comparative Sociology
* Review of David E. Vassberg, The Village and the Outside World in Golden Age Castile: Mobility and Migration in Everyday Rural Life. In Journal of Interdisciplinary History 28,2 (1997): 287 289.
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* Review of Stephen K. Sanderson (ed.), Civilizations and World Systems: Studying World Historical Change. In Sociological Inquiry 66,4 (Fall 1996): 513-517.
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Owens, J. B. (2017) "Review of Lynn, Kimberly and Erin Kathleen Rowe, eds. The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches," Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Vol. 42: Iss. 2, Article... more
Owens, J. B. (2017) "Review of Lynn, Kimberly and Erin Kathleen Rowe, eds. The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches," Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Vol. 42: Iss. 2, Article 16. https://doi.org/10.26431/0739-182X.1261
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Spanish Literature, Art History, Latin American and Caribbean History, and 15 moreEarly Modern History, Italian (European History), Portuguese History, Urban History, Historiography, History of Science, Inquisition, Spanish History, Early Modern Europe, Latin American History, Social History, Early Modern economic and social history, Heresy and Inquisition, Religious Studies, and Monarquía Hispánica
Owens, J. B. (2016). Review of Ian N. Gregory and Alistair Geddes (Eds) (2014), Toward Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS & Spatial History. In American Historical Review 121, 1 (February): 200-201.
Research Interests: History, European History, Geography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, and 15 moreHistorical Geography, Urban Geography, Cartography, Economic Geography, British History, Historical GIS, History of Cartography, Geographically-Integrated History, Geographical education, Chinese history (History), Modern European History, Geografia, Spatial Humanities, Sistemas de Información Geografica, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Owens, J. B. (2015) Review of Polycentric Monarchies: How did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global Hegemony? Edited by Pedro Cardim, Tamar Herzog, José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez, and Gaetano Sabatini. In Hispania, 2015,... more
Owens, J. B. (2015) Review of Polycentric Monarchies: How did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global Hegemony? Edited by Pedro Cardim, Tamar Herzog, José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez, and Gaetano Sabatini. In Hispania, 2015, vol. LXXV, nº. 250, mayo-agosto: 566-569.
Research Interests: European History, Military History, Diplomatic History, Latin American and Caribbean History, Early Modern History, and 15 morePortuguese History, African History, Japanese History, History of Slavery, World History, Spanish History, Indian Ocean History, Monetary history, Global History, Latin American History, Hegemony, Chinese history (History), Fiscal History, Southeast Asian history, and Monarquía Hispánica
Owens, J. B. (2013), Review of Ángel Echevarría Bacigalupe (2013), En los orígenes del espacio global: Una historia de la mundialización. In Journal of Early American History 3 (2013): 240–243.
Research Interests: History, European History, Latin American and Caribbean History, Portuguese History, World Systems Analysis, and 15 moreAfrican History, Japanese History, World History, Indian Ocean History, Slave Trade, Global History, Latin American History, Chinese history (History), Spain (History), Southeast Asian history, Pacific History, Colonial Latin American History, History of European Expansion, Indian History, and Monarquía Hispánica
J. B. Owens (1991) Review of Ronald E. Surtz, The Guitar of God: Gender, Power, and Authority in the Visionary World of Mother Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534). In Sixteenth Century Journal 22, 4, pp. 915-916.
Research Interests: European History, Spanish Literature, Women's Studies, Spanish Studies, Spanish, and 26 moreWomen's History, Early Modern History, Catholic Studies, Spanish Literature (Peninsular), Spirituality, Spanish History, Medieval Women, History Portuguese and Spanish, Early Modern Europe, History of Roman Catholicism, Spirituality & Mysticism, Gender and religion (Women s Studies), Women's Empowerment, Christian Spirituality, Spirituality & Psychology, Monasticism, Spain (History), Early Modern Catholicism, History of Monasticism, Women and Culture, Medieval Spain, Spain, Early modern Spain, Women and Gender Studies, Medieval History of Spain, and Catholic Church History
J. B. Owens (1991) Review of Mary Elizabeth Perry, Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville. In Sixteenth Century Journal 22, 4, pp. 796-797.
Research Interests: European History, Women's Studies, Women's History, Early Modern History, Religion and Politics, and 11 moreUrban History, Women's Rights, Spanish History, History of Roman Catholicism, Spain (History), Early Modern Catholicism, Women and Culture, Spain, Early modern Spain, Women and Gender Studies, and Catholic Church History
J. B. Owens (2000) Review of Ruth MacKay, The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile. In Sixteenth Century Journal 31, 1, pp. 196-197.
Research Interests: European History, Military History, Legitimacy and Authority, Early Modern History, Local History, and 12 morePolitical Science, Spanish History, Early Modern Europe, Political History, History of Political Violence, Spain (History), Fiscal History, Monarchy, Spain, Early modern Spain, Local and regional history, and Political Economy and History
J. B. Owens (2001) Review of Alberto Marcos Martín, España en los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII: Economía y sociedad. In Sixteenth Century Journal 32, 3 (Fall): 832-833.
Research Interests: Economic History, Historical Geography, Urban Geography, International Trade, Urban History, and 15 moreRural History, Land tenure, Spanish History, Urbanism, Transportation, Social History, Early Modern economic and social history, Fiscal policy, Spain (History), Fiscal History, Spain, Early modern Spain, Historia Política y Social Siglos XVIII-XIX, Economic and Social History, and Livestock Production Economics
J. B. Owens (2002) Review of Ida Altman, Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain, & Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620. In Comparative Studies in Society and History 44, 2 (April): 409-410.
Research Interests: Economic History, Historical Geography, Latin American Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History, Mexican Studies, and 22 moreComparative History, Atlantic World, Central America and Mexico, Mexico History, Cultural Historical Activity Theory, Immigration and Emmigration, Latin American History, Cultural Historical Geography, History of Colonial Mexico, Spain (History), Atlantic history, Comparative Historical Analysis, Spain, Early modern Spain, Mexico, México, Colonial Latin American History, Latin America, New Spain, Early Modern Atlantic World (1500-1815), Latinoamerica, and América Latina
J. B. Owens (2002) Review of Lu Ann Homza, Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance. In Hispanic American Historical Review 82, 4 (November): 784-785.
Research Interests: Religion, Comparative Religion, Spanish Literature, Spanish Studies, Spanish, and 23 moreLatin American and Caribbean History, History of Religion, Spanish Literature (Peninsular), Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Religion and Politics, Reformation History, Reformation Studies, Spanish History, History Portuguese and Spanish, History of Religions, Catholic Theology, History of Roman Catholicism, Spain (History), Early Modern Catholicism, Roman Catholicism, Spain, Catholicism, Early modern Spain, Catholic Church, Spanish Literature of the Golden Age, Catholic Church History, and Counter-Reformation
Owens, J. B. (1991) Review of Denis Menjot, Fiscalidad y sociedad: Los murcianos y el impuesto en la Baja Edad Media. In American Historical Review 96, 1 (1991): 152-153.
Research Interests: European History, Economic History, Medieval History, Urban History, Taxation, and 17 moreSpanish History, Medieval Church History, Political Elites, History of Elites, Social History, Social and Cultural History, Fiscal policy, Courts and Elites (History), Spain (History), Fiscal History, Monarchy, Medieval Spain, Spain, Elites, Medieval History of Spain, Jews of Medieval Spain, and Medieval Economic and Social History
Owens, J. B. (1989) Review of Cristina Gutiérrez Cortines Corral, Renacimiento y arquitectura religiosa en la antigua Diócesis de Cartagena (Reyno de Murcia, Gobernación de Orihuela y Sierra de Segura). In Sixteenth Century Journal 20, 2... more
Owens, J. B. (1989) Review of Cristina Gutiérrez Cortines Corral, Renacimiento y arquitectura religiosa en la antigua Diócesis de Cartagena (Reyno de Murcia, Gobernación de Orihuela y Sierra de Segura). In Sixteenth Century Journal 20, 2 (1989): 321-323.
Research Interests: European History, Sociology of Religion, Early Modern History, History of Religion, Renaissance Studies, and 16 moreRenaissance Humanism, Renaissance, Reformation History, Reformation Studies, Spanish History, Architecture in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, History of Roman Catholicism, Early Modern Church History, Church History, Italian Renaissance Art, Spain (History), Early Modern Catholicism, Spain, Early modern Spain, Ecclesiastical History, and Catholic Church History
Owens (1989) Review of Marvin Lunenfeld, Keepers of the City: The Corregidores of Isabella I of Castile (1474-1504). In Hispanic American Historical Review 69, 1 (1989): 172-173.
Research Interests: European History, Military History, Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Comparative Law, and 23 morePublic Administration, European Law, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Urban History, Jewish History, Spanish History, Early Modern Europe, Judicial Politics, Jewish - Christian Relations, Queenship (Medieval History), Medieval Jewish History, Spain (History), Monarchy, The role of the judiciary, Medieval Spain, Spain, Early modern Spain, Kingdom of Castile in the Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, Medieval History of Spain, Public Administration and Policy, and Royal Prerogative
Owens (1989) Review of Cristina Gutiérrez Cortines Corral, Arquitectura, economía e iglesia en el siglo XVI (Murcia y su entorno), and Renacimiento y arquitectura religiosa en la antigua Diócesis de Cartagena (Reyno de Murcia, Gobernación... more
Owens (1989) Review of Cristina Gutiérrez Cortines Corral, Arquitectura, economía e iglesia en el siglo XVI (Murcia y su entorno), and Renacimiento y arquitectura religiosa en la antigua Diócesis de Cartagena (Reyno de Murcia, Gobernación de Orihuela y Sierra de Segura). In Sixteenth Century Journal 20, 2 (1989): 321 323.
Research Interests: Economic History, Renaissance History, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, and 21 moreRenaissance Art, Jesuit history, Architectural History, Architecture in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, Intellectual History of the Renaissance, History of Roman Catholicism, Architectural Theory, Social History, Italian Renaissance Art, Early Modern economic and social history, Social and Cultural History, Spain (History), Early Modern Catholicism, Spain, Early modern Spain, History of architecture, The Early Jesuits and Catholic Reform, Ecclesiastical History, Catholic Church History, Counter-Reformation, and Architecture and Public Spaces
Owens (1988) Review of Ralph H. Vigil, Alonso de Zorita: Royal Judge and Christian Humanist, 1512 1585. In Journal of American History 75, 3 (Dec. 1988): 912-913.
Research Interests: Latin American and Caribbean History, Early Modern History, History of Christianity, Renaissance Humanism, Legal History, and 16 moreMexico History, Lawyers, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Humanism, History of Colonial Mexico, Indigenous Peoples, Administrative Law and Bureaucratic Legalism, Spain (History), Empire, Native American (History), The role of the judiciary, Early modern Spain, Humanismo, Bureaucracy, Monarquía Hispánica, and Pueblos indígenas
Owens (1989) Review of Ignacio Atienza Hernández, Aristocracia, poder y riqueza en la España moderna: La Casa de Osuna, siglos XV-XIX. In American Historical Review 94, 2 (1989): 466-467.
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Owens (1986). Review of David E. Vassberg, Land and Society in Golden Age Castile. In Hispanic American Historical Review 66 (1986): 358-359.
Research Interests: American History, Economic History, Economic Sociology, Rural Sociology, Spanish Literature, and 22 moreSocial Anthropology, Sociology of Work, Latin American and Caribbean History, Spanish Literature (Peninsular), Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sustainable agriculture, Peasant Studies, Rural History, Spanish History, History Portuguese and Spanish, Agricultural Economics, Rural Geography, Agriculture, Social History, Agricultural History, Spain (History), Comparative Historical Analysis, Spain, Early modern Spain, Sociologia, Sociología, and Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
Owens (1985). Review of Jack Beeching, The Galleys at Lepanto. In Sixteenth Century Journal 16,1 (1985): 153.
Research Interests: British Literature, Military History, English Literature, Ottoman History, Balkan History, and 15 moreWar Studies, Naval Warfare, Naval History, Ottoman Studies, Ottoman Empire, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman-Habsburg relations, Ottoman Balkans, Early Modern Italy, Ottoman Military History, Spain (History), Mediterranean and North Africa, 20th Century British Literature, Early modern Spain, and North African History
Owens (1984). Review of John M. Headley, The Emperor and his Chancellor: A Study of the Imperial Chancellery under Gattinara. In Sixteenth Century Journal 15,3 (1984): 381-383.
Research Interests: Military History, Diplomatic History, French History, Social Networks, Latin American and Caribbean History, and 13 moreRenaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, Renaissance, Habsburg Studies, History of The Netherlands, Diplomacy, Ottoman-Habsburg relations, Spain (History), Monarchy, Spain, Early modern Spain, Institutions, and Bureaucracy
Owens (1984). Review of William S. Maltby, Alba: A Biography of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Third Duke of Alba, 1507-1582. In Sixteenth Century Journal 15,3 (1984): 381-383.
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Owens (1982). Review of Richard L. Kagan, Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700. In Sixteenth Century Journal 13,4 (1982): 120.
Research Interests: Law, Criminal Law, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Civil Law, and 27 moreEuropean Law, Early Modern History, Social Identity, Contract Law, Property Rights, Property Law, Legal History, Legal Theory, Institutional Theory, Early Modern Europe, Lawyers, Civil Litigation, Judicial Politics, History of Universities, Early Modern Intellectual History, Early Modern economic and social history, Republic of Letters (Early Modern History), Institutions (Political Science), Spain (History), Social Mobility, Judicial Decision-Making, The role of the judiciary, Spain, Early modern Spain, Institutions, University, and Universidad
Owens (1982). Review of Stephen Haliczer, The Comuneros of Castile: The Forging of a Revolution, 1475-1521. In Sixteenth Century Journal 13,4 (1982): 125-126, and 14,2 (1982): 246-247.
Research Interests: Economic History, Spanish Studies, Early Modern History, Urban History, Revolutions, and 13 moreSpanish History, Early Modern Europe, 16th Century (History), Social History, Social movements and revolution, Early Modern economic and social history, Spain (History), Fiscal History, Medieval Spain, Spain, Early modern Spain, Medieval History of Spain, and Medieval Economic and Social History
Owens (1981). Review of Francisco Chacón Jiménez, Murcia en la centuria de quinientos. In Sixteenth Century Journal 12,1 (1981): 116-117.
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Owens (1981). Review of Helen Nader, The Mendoza Family in the Spanish Renaissance, 1350 1550. In Sixteenth Century Journal 12,1 (1981): 118 119.
Research Interests: European History, Cultural History, European Studies, Spanish Literature, Early Modern History, and 15 moreRenaissance Humanism, Renaissance, Colonialism, Nobility, Moriscos, Social History, Muslim Spain, Renaissance literature, Early Modern economic and social history, Spain (History), Monarchy, Medieval Spain, Spain, Early modern Spain, and Aristocracy
Owens (1981). Review of Mary Elizabeth Perry, Crime and Society in Early Modern Seville. In Sixteenth Century Journal 12,2 (1981): 123 124, and 12,3 (1981): 123.
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Owens_1980-Review of Valentín Vázquez de Prada, Historia económica y social de España: vol. 3, Los siglos XVI y XVII. In American Historical Review 85 (1980): 1211-1212.
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Owens, J. B. (1977). Review of William Hamilton Bryson, A Dictionary of Sigla and Other Abbreviations in Law Books before 1607. In Sixteenth Century Journal 8,2 (1977): 108.
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Law, Criminal Law, Comparative Law, and 18 moreConstitutional Law, Civil Law, European Law, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Contract Law, Book History, History of the Book, Property Law, Law and Society, Tudor England, Philosophy Of Law, Early Modern England, Medieval England, Social History, Printing History, Book History (History), and Dictionaries
Owens_1975-Review of Richard L. Kagan, Students and Society in Early Modern Spain. In American Journal of Legal History 19 (1975): 334 336.
Research Interests: History, European History, Cultural History, European Studies, Social Networks, and 21 moreLatin American and Caribbean History, European Law, History of Religion, History of Education, History of Medicine, Social Networking, Portuguese History, Iberian Studies, Scholarly Communication, Medieval Iberian History, Spanish History, Lawyers, History of higher education, Catholic Theology, History of Universities, Social History, History of Classical Scholarship, Monarchy, Students, Universidad, and Student
Owens_1975-Review of John H. Langbein, Prosecuting Crime in the Renaissance: England, Germany, France. In Sixteenth Century Journal 6,2 (1975): 124 125.
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This file contains the PowerPoint slides I used for my presentation of my paper, "A Complex Systems Landscape: Recognizing What's Important in World History," which I presented at the recent World History Association Conference in Bilbao,... more
This file contains the PowerPoint slides I used for my presentation of my paper, "A Complex Systems Landscape: Recognizing What's Important in World History," which I presented at the recent World History Association Conference in Bilbao, Spain (24 June 2022). In order to understand the slides, you must also have a copy of the paper, which tracks the slides. The paper is also available on my Academia page.
Research Interests: Algorithms, Evolutionary Economics, Social Networks, World Systems Analysis, Complexity Theory, and 15 moreSelf-Organization, Evolution of Morality, Cooperation and Conflict, Nonlinear dynamics, Narrative and interpretation, World History, First Global Age, 1400-1800, Complex Systems, Complexity, Cultural Evolution, Global History, Databases, Emergence, Cooperation, and Nonlinear Analysis
This paper introduces a metaphor/model for a world history greater than the sum of its parts. The metaphor guides us to the necessary historical information and suggests the sort of database required for its representation. The paper was... more
This paper introduces a metaphor/model for a world history greater than the sum of its parts. The metaphor guides us to the necessary historical information and suggests the sort of database required for its representation. The paper was presented at the World History Association Conference in Bilbao, Spain (Friday, 24 June 2022).
Research Interests: Scientific Visualization, Visualization, Complexity Theory, Evolution of Religion, World History, and 15 moreHistory of Political Violence, Philosophy of History, History of Violence, Theory of History, Modeling and Simulation, Global History, Historical Epistemology, Complex Adaptive Systems, Historical Ecology, Evolution and Human Behavior, Historical Thinking, Social Complexity, Conflictos Sociales, Mental Models, and Social Conflict
J. B. Owens (2023) "A Complex-Systems Landscape: Recognizing What Is Important in World History." In Press. This article introduces a complex-systems metaphor/model for a world history greater than the sum of its parts. Due to the... more
J. B. Owens (2023) "A Complex-Systems Landscape: Recognizing What Is Important in World History." In Press.
This article introduces a complex-systems metaphor/model for a world history greater than the sum of its parts. Due to the difficulty of thinking about any event within such a complicated context, we present a visualization to guide researchers’ recognition of the relationships that shape the historical process they study. To support thought, we repurpose a pair of linked visualizations that model gene expression in the morphogenesis of tissues and organs from a fertilized egg. The visual metaphor presents the shaping factors in two ways. First, the historical process encounters, as it moves through the complex-systems landscape, a series of elevations and depressions, which can be identified with significant relations. Second, from below, the metaphor permits the identification of these perturbations, the hills and valleys, with networks connecting the landscape's undulations to developments in specific places and larger geographic areas. These networks also serve to represent the way the complex human system couples with the complex natural systems relevant to the historical process in question. Moreover, the metaphor demands the recognition of hierarchies of instability, on which historians must focus to understand when a level of instability is reduced through some localized development, and when the instability level in places most relevant to the overall human system become so unstable that the system enters a period of phase transition to a new historical system and period. Employing the metaphor in this manner allows historians to defend the importance of their own research by tying it to world historical processes.
This article introduces a complex-systems metaphor/model for a world history greater than the sum of its parts. Due to the difficulty of thinking about any event within such a complicated context, we present a visualization to guide researchers’ recognition of the relationships that shape the historical process they study. To support thought, we repurpose a pair of linked visualizations that model gene expression in the morphogenesis of tissues and organs from a fertilized egg. The visual metaphor presents the shaping factors in two ways. First, the historical process encounters, as it moves through the complex-systems landscape, a series of elevations and depressions, which can be identified with significant relations. Second, from below, the metaphor permits the identification of these perturbations, the hills and valleys, with networks connecting the landscape's undulations to developments in specific places and larger geographic areas. These networks also serve to represent the way the complex human system couples with the complex natural systems relevant to the historical process in question. Moreover, the metaphor demands the recognition of hierarchies of instability, on which historians must focus to understand when a level of instability is reduced through some localized development, and when the instability level in places most relevant to the overall human system become so unstable that the system enters a period of phase transition to a new historical system and period. Employing the metaphor in this manner allows historians to defend the importance of their own research by tying it to world historical processes.
Research Interests: History, Sociology, Social Networks, Narrative, World Systems Analysis, and 15 moreWorld History, Spanish History, Complex Systems, Process Philosophy, Philosophy of History, Cultural Evolution, Global History, Social Evolution, Space and Time (Philosophy), Emergence, Fernand Braudel, Early modern Spain, Cooperation, World-Systems Theory, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
El próximo jueves 29 de febrero, a las 17:00 horas (CET), se celebrará una nueva edición del Seminario Permanente “Los mundos ibéricos y la globalización temprana”. Los profesores Manuel Díaz-Ordóñez (Universidad de Sevilla) y Domingo... more
El próximo jueves 29 de febrero, a las 17:00 horas (CET), se celebrará una nueva edición del Seminario Permanente “Los mundos ibéricos y la globalización temprana”. Los profesores Manuel Díaz-Ordóñez (Universidad de Sevilla) y Domingo Savio Rodríguez Baena (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) presentarán la ponencia "Descubriendo Patrones Ocultos: Aplicación de Biclustering en AtlantoCracies, una Base de Datos NoSQL de la nobleza española en América (Siglos XVI-XIX)", que contará con el posterior comentario del Prof. Jack Owens (Idaho State University). La Profa. Bethany Aram (UPO) dirigirá la sesión y fomentará el debate.