The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe that lived around the modern Dutch Rhine delta in the area that the Romans called Batavia, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD. The name is also applied to several military units employed by the Romans that were originally raised among the Batavi. The tribal name, probably a derivation from batawjō, refers to the region's fertility, today known as the fruitbasket of the Netherlands.
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences. His name is sometimes spelled with an accent as Quételet.
Social statistics is the use of statistical measurement systems to study human behavior in a social environment. This can be accomplished through polling a group of people, evaluating a subset of data obtained about a group of people, or by observation and statistical analysis of a set of data that relates to people and their behaviors.
Norman Ravitch is a professor emeritus of history at University of California, Riverside. He has written books, as well as occasional pieces for the Rockwell Foundation and other libertarian think-tanks.
José Peirats Valls (1908–1989) was a Spanish anarchist, activist, journalist and historian.
David John Hand is a British statistician. His research interests include multivariate statistics, classification methods, pattern recognition, computational statistics and the foundations of statistics. He has written technical books on statistics, data mining, finance, classification methods, and measuring wellbeing, as well as science popularisation books including The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day; Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters; and Statistics: A Very Short Introduction. In 1991 he launched the journal Statistics and Computing, which is now celebrating its third decade.
Thomas Graham Balfour was a Scottish physician noted for his work with medical statistics, and a member of Florence Nightingale's inner circle.
Antoine Édouard Ducpétiaux was a Belgian journalist and social reformer.
The Social Bases of Nazism, 1919–1933 is a 2003 non-fiction book written by Detlef Muehlberger.
Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany is a 2004 book by Nikolaus Wachsmann. Wachsmann is a modern European history professor. In his book, he argues how the Nazi judiciary played a key role in Nazi terror. There were harsh punishments that came with prison systems by enforcing Nazi racial policies of Jews, homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses. Wachsmann visualized how law enforcements created an unhealthy obsession with the Nazi and terror acts in Germany before and during World War II. Each chapter is dedicated towards a specific topic relating to political and prisoner terror. The author operated his book by aluminizing the bureaucratic and institutional history of prisons and the history of inmates themselves.
Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema is a 2007 book published by Palgrave Macmillan and edited by Roel Vande Winkel and David Welch.
Demanding the Impossible is a book on the history of anarchism by Peter Marshall.
The International Congress of Orientalists, initiated in Paris in 1873, was an international conference of Orientalists. The first thirteen meetings were held in Europe; the fourteenth congress was held in Algiers in 1905 and some of the subsequent conferences were also held outside Europe. Papers were primarily about philology and archaeology. The Proceedings of the Congresses were published. The work of the International Congress of Orientalists is carried on by the International Congress of Asian and North African Studies.
Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement is a biography of Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and historian of anarchism José Peirats written by Chris Ealham and published by AK Press in 2015. It was subsequently published in Spanish as Vivir la anarquía, vivir la utopía (2016).
The Sulphur Crisis of 1840 was a conflict between the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the United Kingdom. In the 19th century, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies maintained a large sulphur mining industry and was responsible for most of the world's production. In industrialising, British demand for sulphur increased considerably. The nation had a very favourable treaty with the Two Sicilies, negotiated in 1816. The Sulphur Crisis of 1840 occurred when King Ferdinand II gave a monopoly of the sulphur industry to a French firm. The British argued it violated the 1816 trade agreement. A peaceful solution was eventually negotiated by France.
Daniel Uziel is an Israeli historian and head of photographic collections at Yad Vashem. His doctoral thesis was on the Wehrmacht propaganda corps and was accepted in 2001 by Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Andreas Wimmer is a Swiss sociologist who is the Lieber Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy at Columbia University. He has a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Zurich.
Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women is a 1991 book by Martha Ackelsberg on feminist practices in the Spanish anarchist movement. It is supplemented by interviews the author performed with surviving members of Mujeres Libres.
Elisa Camiscioli is an American historian specialized in immigration to and from France, sex trafficking, and race and sexual politics in modern France and its empire. In 2008, she became an associate professor of history at Binghamton University. She authored Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century. Duke University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8223-4565-7. Camiscioli was co-editor of the Journal of Women's History from 2015 to 2020.
Lorelle Denise Semley is an American historian of Africa specialized in modern West Africa, French imperialism, gender, and the Atlantic World. She is a professor of history at the College of the Holy Cross.
