Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
xx, 313 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292) and index. |
Note |
Papers presented at a conference held at the Newberry Library in Chicago in March 2004. |
Contents |
GIS and history / Anne Kelly Knowles -- Creating a GIS for this history of China / Peter K. Bol -- Teaching with GIS / Robert Churchill, 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, Tom Elliott -- History and GIS: implications for the discipline / David J. Bodenhamer -- What could Lee see at Gettysburg? / Anne Kelly Knowles [and others] -- Conclusion: An agenda for historical GIS / Anne Kelly Knowles, Amy Hillier, Roberta Balstad. |
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 |
Historical geographic information systems -- Congresses.
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Historical geography -- Methodology -- Congresses.
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Historical geographic information systems. (OCoLC)fst01743663
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Historical geography -- Methodology.
(OCoLC)fst00958124
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
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Added Author |
Knowles, Anne Kelly.
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Hillier, Amy, 1970-
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ISBN |
9781589480131 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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1589480139 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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