Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship [With CDROM]

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Overview

In the last decade, historical GIS has emerged as a promising new methodology for studying the past. Historical GIS is the use of geographic information systems software and allied geospatial methods for historical research and teaching. Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship offers case studies and essays on key issues involving historical GIS, highlighting the unprecedented range of tools to visualize historical information in a geographical context. Quantitative social science historians are embracing GIS to facilitate the mapping of large datasets, but anyone with access to the software and the skills to use it can include mapping in research. This change is little short of revolutionary considering how few scholars or students made maps even ten years ago. Historical maps are suddenly in great demand as digitally modified, georeferenced images that enable researchers to study GIS as a visual medium of communication and analysis.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781589480131
  • Publisher: ESRI Press
  • Publication date: 12/1/2007
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 313
  • Sales rank: 874,935
  • Product dimensions: 7.60 (w) x 8.94 (h) x 0.82 (d)

Meet the Author

Anne Kelly Knowles is lecturer in geography at the Institute of Earth Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and is a member of the editorial advisory board for "Historical Geography,"

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Table of Contents

Foreword   Richard White     IX
Preface   Anne Kelly Knowles   Amy Hillier     XIII
Acknowledgments     XIX
GIS and History   Anne Kelly Knowles     1
Creating a GIS for the History of China   Peter K. Bol     27
Teaching with GIS   Robert Churchill   Amy Hillier     61
Scaling the Dust Bowl   Geoff Cunfer     95
"A Map Is Just a Bad Graph": Why Spatial Statistics Are Important in Historical GIS   Ian N. Gregory     123
Mapping Husbandry in Concord: GIS as a Tool for Environmental History   Brian Donahue     151
Combining Space and Time: New Potential for Temporal GIS   Michael F. Goodchild     179
New Windows on the Peutinger Map of the Roman World   Richard J.A. Talbert   Tom Elliott     199
History and GIS: Implications for the Discipline   David J. Bodenhamer     219
What Could Lee See at Gettysburg?   Anne Kelly Knowles   Will Roush   Caitrin Abshere   Lucas Farrell   Andrew Feinberg   Thom Humber   Garrott Kuzzy   Charlie Wirene     235
Conclusion: An Agenda for Historical GIS   Anne Kelly Knowles   Amy Hillier   Roberta Balstad     267
Chapter Introduction Credits     275
Bibliography     277
About the Authors     293
Index     297
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