Modeling historical processes. From the reconstruction of reality to analysis of alternatives

This book is the first comprehensive study of the possibilities and restrictions on modeling historical processes, covering the half -century experience in the development of this interdisciplinary direction, one of the most discussion areas in the modern methodology of historical knowledge. The author gives a typology of computer models that have found application in history. The book considers the experience of modeling alternative historical processes and situations accumulated within the framework of cliometric, a characteristic of approaches to modeling global processes of historical development developed by researchers developing cliodynamics is a new direction of quantitative history.
Particular attention in the book is paid to modeling social mobility in Russian society of the 19th - early XX century, as well as modeling unstable and transitional historical processes based on a synergistic approach. The capabilities of computer models are considered in the problems of reconstruction of the evolution of medieval historical texts, as well as virtual reconstruction of objects of historical and cultural heritage using 3D models.
The book is focused on a wide range of historians, specialists in the field of the methodology of social sciences, as well as everyone who is interested in the possibilities of computer modeling of historical processes and phenomena