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Title Placing history : how maps, spatial data, and GIS are changing historical scholarship / edited by Anne Kelly Knowles ; digital supplement edited by Amy Hillier.

Imprint Redlands, Calif. : ESRI Press, 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  902.85 P69 2008    ---  Available
 Axe Compact Discs 1st Floor  902.85 P69 2008    ---  Available
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.
Historical geography -- Methodology -- Congresses.
Historical geographic information systems. (OCoLC)fst01743663
Historical geography -- Methodology. (OCoLC)fst00958124
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
Added Author Knowles, Anne Kelly.
Hillier, Amy, 1970-
ISBN 9781589480131 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1589480139 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

 
    
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