| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 unaffected by this trend. Why is it that computer applications in general have failed to make much headway in history departments, despite the first steps being undertaken a good forty years ago? With the 'spatial turn' in full swing in the humanities, and many historians dealing with spatial and geographical questions, one would think GIS would be welcomed with open arms. Yet there seems to be no general anticipation by historians of employing GIS as a research tool. As mentioned, HGIS are popular chiefly among Historical Geographers and Social and Economic Historians. The latter disciplines seem to be predestined to use such software through the widespread quantitative methodology these disciplines have employed traditionally. Other historical sub-disciplines, such as Ancient History, are also very open to this emerging technology since the scarcity of written sources in this field can be mitigated by inferences made from an HGIS that has archaeological data stored in it. In most of Modern History, however, the use of GIS or its intellectual benefit is rarely seen. This book investigates and discusses this controversy. Why does the wider historian community not embrace GIS more readily? While one cannot deny that the methodologies linked with a GIS follow geographical paradigms rather than historical ones, the potential of GIS as a 'killer application' for digital historical scholarship should be obvious. This book brings together authors from Geography and History to discuss the value of GIS for historical research. The focus, however, will not be on the "how", but on the "why" of GIS in history |
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Geography |
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Geographical information systems |
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History |
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Geographical Information Systems/Cartography |
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Regional/Spatial Science |
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Philosophy of Science |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Historical geographic information systems.
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HISTORY -- Civilization.
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HISTORY -- Essays.
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HISTORY -- Reference.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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Sciences de la terre.
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Environnement.
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Historical geographic information systems
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lünen, Alexander von, 1971-
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Travis, Charles, 1964-
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| LC no. |
2012954616 |
| ISBN |
9789400750098 |
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9400750099 |
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