Placing History

How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS are Changing Historical Scholarship

• Author(s): Anne Kelly Knowles, Amy Hillier,
• Publisher: ESRI, Inc.
• Pages: 313
• ISBN_10: 1589480139
  ISBN_13: 9781589480131
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Study & Teaching , History / Historical Geography , Technology & Engineering / Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems , Technology & Engineering / Cartography ,

Description:... In the last decade, historical GIS (geographic information systems) has emerged as a promising new methodology for studying the past. This work offers case studies and essays involving historical GIS, highlighting the unprecedented range of tools to visualize historical information in a geographical context.