History and GIS [electronic resource] : epistemologies, considerations and reflections / Alexander von Lünen, Charles Travis, editors.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) - either as 'standard' GIS or custom made Historical GIS (HGIS) - have become quite popular in some historical sub-disciplines, such as Economic and Social History or Historical Geography.'Mainstream' history, however, seems to be rather una...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Lünen, Alexander von, 1971-, Travis, Charles, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Beyond GIS: Geospatial Technologies and the Future of History / David J. Bodenhamer
  • Immobile History: An Interview with Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie / Alexander von Lünen, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
  • The Dawn of a Golden Age? Historical GIS and the History of Choropleth Mapping in the Netherlands / Onno Boonstra
  • (In)Digitizing Cáuigú Historical Geographies: Technoscience as a Postcolonial Discourse / Mark H. Palmer
  • Place in Time: GIS and the Spatial Imagination in Teaching History / Detlev Mares, Wolfgang Moschek
  • "Thou Shalt Make No Graven Maps!": An Interview with Gunnar Olsson / Alexander von Lünen, Gunnar Olsson
  • Vernacular GIS: Mapping Early Modern Geography and Socioeconomics / Alexi Baker
  • Mapping Miracles: Early Medieval Hagiography and the Potential of GIS / Faye Taylor
  • The Role of Knowledge Spaces in Geographically-Oriented History / Monica Wachowicz, J.B. Owens
  • Writing Visual Histories: An Interview with David J. Staley / Charles Travis, David J. Staley
  • GIS and Research Into Historical "Spaces of Practice": Overcoming the Epistemological Barriers / Sam Griffiths
  • GIS and History: Epistemologies, Reflections, and Considerations / Charles Travis
  • Maps of Change: A Brief History of the American Historical Atlas / Edward L. Ayers, Robert K. Nelson, C. Scott Nesbit
  • Tracking in a New Territory: Re-imaging GIS for History / Alexander von Lünen.