Van Besouw and Curtis (2022) constructed a dataset to analyse war-related mortality in the seventeenth-century Low Countries. They extracted data ‘on clearly identifiable military events’ from literature on early modern warfare and added geographic information for each event. Neither dataset, however, has been published.
While the publications of Dincecco and Onorato (2016) and van Besouw and Curtis (2022) demonstrate the growing interest in quantifying historical military events, the unpublished status of their datasets limits their utility in broader scholarly discourse. This situation highlights the need for more accessible, detailed, and comprehensive data.
Van Besouw and Curtis (2021, 2022) constructed a dataset to analyse war-related mortality in the seventeenth-century Low Countries. They extracted data ‘on clearly identifiable military events’ from literature on early modern warfare and added geographic information for each event.
While the publications of Dincecco and Onorato (2016) and van Besouw and Curtis (2021, 2022) demonstrate the growing interest in quantifying historical military events, the datasets they have made available serve primarily to allow readers to replicate their historical-statistical analyses. The dataset we present here, by contrast, has not been created to help answer specific research questions, but is geared towards maximum reusability and compatibility with existing datasets.
In the reference list, please consider the following entry for the data set by Van Besouw and Curtis to be added:
van Besouw, B. & Curtis, D.R. (2021). Replication files for “Estimating warfare-related civilian mortality in the early modern period: Evidence from the Low Countries, 1620–99.” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. www.doi.org/10.3886/E147721V2.
