Introduction: Fifty Years of Interdisciplinary History, 1970–2020 With this volume, the Journal of Interdisciplinary History entered its fiftieth year of publication. In order to celebrate and demonstrate how interdisciplinary scholarship has flourished and evolved over five decades, we have commissioned essays by members of our board of editors and long-time collaborators on their special fields of expertise. Michael McCormick’s “Climates of History, Histories of Climate: From History to Archaeoscience” and Peter Temin’s “Words and Numbers: A New Approach to Writing Ancient History” appeared in the inaugural issue. The second installment had Anne Hardy’s “The Under-Appreciated Rat and Other Under-Appreciated Rodents: Harbingers of Plague from the Black Death to Twenty-First-Century America,” Steven A. Epstein’s “Environmental History in the JIH, 1970–2020,” and Peter A. Coclanis’ “Field Notes: Agricultural History’s New Plot.” The third issue of the fiftieth volume includes George C. Alter’s “The Evolution of Models in Historical Demography” and Steven Ruggles and Diana L. Magnuson’s “The History of Quantification in History: The JIH as a Case Study.” The series will conclude with Peter Burke’s “Art and History, 1969–2019,” E. Anthony Wrigley’s “The Interplay of Demographic, Economic, and Social History,” Myron P. Gutmann’s “Quantifying Interdisciplinary History—The Record of (Nearly) Fifty Years of the JIH,” and Anne E. C. McCants’ “Economic History and the Historians.” These new essays both exemplify the special fields of interdisciplinary history as it has evolved over fifty years and point the way toward future research on these and related topics. The JIH prides itself on its receptivity to new areas and foci of research into past times; on its ability to publish innovative, even speculative, scholarly research findings; and on its openness to broad, and

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简介：跨学科历史五十年，1970-2020年

简介：跨学科历史五十年，1970–2020年跨学科历史杂志进入这一年，出版了五十年。为了庆祝和展示跨学科奖学金在过去的五十年中如何蓬勃发展，我们委托编辑委员会成员和长期合作者就其专业领域发表论文。迈克尔·麦考密克（Michael McCormick）的“历史的气候，气候的历史：从历史到考古学”和彼得·特敏（Peter Temin）的“单词与数字：书写古代历史的新方法”出现在首期杂志上。第二部分是安妮·哈迪（Anne Hardy）的“被低估的老鼠和其他被低估的啮齿动物：从黑死病到二十一世纪美国的瘟疫预兆”，史蒂文·爱泼斯坦（Steven A. Epstein）的“联合王国环境史，1970–2020”和彼得·科克拉尼斯（Peter A. Coclanis）的“田间记录：农业历史的新图”。第五十卷的第三期包括George C. Alter的“历史人口统计学模型的演变”以及Steven Ruggles和Diana L. Magnuson的“历史量化历史：以JIH为例的研究”。该系列将以彼得·伯克（Peter Burke）的“艺术与历史，1969-2019”，E。安东尼·瑞格利（E. Anthony Wrigley）的“人口，经济和社会历史的相互作用”，迈伦·古特曼（Myron P. Gutmann）的“量化跨学科历史-（近）五十年的记录”作为结尾。 JIH年，以及Anne EC McCants的“经济史和历史学家”。这些新论文既说明了跨学科历史在五十多年的发展中的特殊领域，也为今后在这些及相关主题上的研究指明了道路。JIH以其对新领域的接受能力和过去的研究重点而感到自豪。其发布创新的，甚至是投机性的学术研究成果的能力；以及它对广泛的开放性，以及