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Placing history : how maps, spatial data, and GIS are changing historical scholarship / edited by Anne Kelly Knowles ; digital supplement edited by Amy Hillier.
- Title
- Placing history : how maps, spatial data, and GIS are changing historical scholarship / edited by Anne Kelly Knowles ; digital supplement edited by Amy Hillier.
- Publication
- Redlands, Calif. : ESRI Press, 2008.
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- Description
- xx, 313 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 23 cm. +
- Summary
- CD-ROM contains: Four Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and interactive mapping exercises, some of which extend the scholarly material and addressess new issues related to historical GIS.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- CD-ROMs.
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Note
- Papers presented at a conference "History and geography: assessing the role of the geographic information in historical scholarship" held at the Newberry Library in Chicago in March 2004.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-292) and index.
- System Details (note)
- System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Intel Pentium III or higher; 256 MB RAM; 192 MB free disc space; Microsoft Windows 2000/XP (not Vista compatible); Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 or higher; Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 or higher; web browser
- Contents
- GIS and history / Anne Kelly Knowles -- Creating a GIS for this history of China / Peter K. Bol -- Teaching with GIS / Robert Churchill and Amy Hillier -- Scaling the dust bowl / Geoff Cunfer -- "A map is just a bad graph" : why spatial statistics are important in historical GIS / Ian N. Gregory -- Mapping husbandry in Concord: GIS as a tool for environmental history / Brian Donahue -- Combining space and time: new potential for temporal GIS / Michael F. Goodchild -- New windows on the Peutinger map of the Roman World / Richard J.A. Talbert and Tom Elliott -- History and GIS: implications for the discipline / David J. Bodenhamer -- What could Lee see at Gettysburg? / Anne Kelly Knowles. with Will Roush, Caitrin Abshere, Lucas Farrell, Andrew Feinberg, Thom Humber, Garriott Kuzzy, and Charlie Wirene -- Conclusion: an agenda for historical GIS / Anne Kelly Knowles, Amy Hillier, and Roberta Balstad.
- ISBN
- 9781589480131 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1589480139 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007038445
- OCLC
- 173182818
- SCSB-11718640
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library