CONTENTS
FOCUS I – The Économie des Conventions
Rainer Diaz-Bone & Robert Salais
The Économie des Conventions – Transdisciplinary Discussions and Perspectives. Introduction to the HSR Focus. p. 9
Christian Bessy
Institutions and Conventions of Quality. p. 15
Laurent Thévenot
Convening the Company of Historians to go into Conventions, Powers, Critiques and Engagements. p. 22
Jürgen Kädtler
On Conventions, Institutions, Power, and Uncertainty – Some Cursory Remarks. p. 36
Bert De Munck
Conventions, the Great Transformation and Actor Network Theory. p. 44
Robert Salais
Quantification and the Economics of Convention. p. 55
Rainer Diaz-Bone
Elaborating the Conceptual Difference between Conventions and Institutions. p. 64
Claire Judde de Larivière
The ‘Public’ and the ‘Private’ in Sixteenth-Century Venice: From Medieval Economy to Early Modern State. p. 76
FOCUS II – Towards Web History
Christoph Classen, Susanne Kinnebrock & Maria Löblich
Towards Web History: Sources, Methods, and Challenges in the Digital Age. An Introduction. p. 97
Niels Brügger
When the Present Web is Later the Past: Web Historiography, Digital History, and Internet Studies. p. 102
Christian Schwarzenegger
Exploring Digital Yesterdays – Reflections on New Media and the Future of Communication History. p. 118
Christian Oggolder
Inside – Outside. Web History and the Ambivalent Relationship between Old and New Media. p. 134
Albrecht Hoppe & Rudolf Stöber
Amtspresse in Preußen. Zur Erschließung der Provinzial-Correspondenz und Neuesten Mittheilungen. p. 150
Patrick Rössler, Achim Bonte & Katja Leiskau
Digitization of Popular Print Media as a Source for Studies on Visual Communication: Illustrated Magazines of the Weimar Republic. p. 172
MIXED ISSUE
Jarg Bergold & Stefan Thomas
Participatory Research Methods: A Methodological Approach in Motion. p. 191
Franz Breuer
Predecessor-Successor Transitions in Institutional and Interpersonal Contexts: On the Development of a Theory of Transfer of Personal Objects. p. 223
César A. Cisneros Puebla & Judith Davidson
Qualitative Computing and Qualitative Research: Addressing the Challenges of Technology and Globalization. p. 237
Rainer Schützeichel
Verstehen in professionalen Interaktionen. p. 249
Ann-Mari Sellerberg & Vesa Leppänen
A Typology of Narratives of Social Inclusion and Exclusion: The Case of Bankrupt Entrepreneurs. p. 264
Evangelina Baralou, Patricia Wolf & Jens O. Meissner
Bright, Excellent, Ignored: The Contribution of Luhmann’s System Theory and Its Problem of Non-Connectivity to Academic Management Research. p. 289
Claude Diebolt
Where Are We Now in Cliometrics? p. 309
Anne Reimat
Old Age Pensions, Demography and Economic Growth in the Long Run: The French Case Revisited. p. 327
Patricio Sáiz
Social Networks of Innovation in the European Periphery: Exploring Independent versus Corporate Patents in Spain circa 1820–1939. p. 348