Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship - Softcover

 
9781589480131: Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1589480139 ISBN 13: 9781589480131
Verlag: Esri Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Esri Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1589480139
ISBN 13 
9781589480131
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
313
Herausgeber
Hillier Amy, Knowles Anne Kelly
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