Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, And Gis Are Changing Historical Scholarship

摘要

Has GIS changed history? What does the future hold for historical GIS? The essays in this practical, provocative volume offer nuanced answers from a variety of perspectives in the geographic information systems community. On such core questions, however, the contributors agree: GIS has played a significant role in the so-called "spatial turn" across the social sciences, and the influence of GIS will continue to expand in the future-as GIS software grows more accessible, as digital infrastructure extends the digital domain, and as "generation Google Earth" builds careers in the academy. Placing History presents work originally offered at the "History and Geography" conference at Chicago's Newberry Library in March 2004. Reflecting the themes of the conference, editor Anne Kelly Knowles has organized the volume around two types of contributions, methodological essays and case studies.