Historical GIS: Technologies, Methodologies, and Scholarship (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography) | 
|  | | | Title: | Historical GIS: Technologies, Methodologies, and Scholarship (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography) | | Author: | Ian N. Gregory
Paul S. Ell | | Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 04 February, 2008 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0521671701 / 9780521671705 | | List Price: | $39.99 | | You Save: | $2.42 | | Amazon Price: | $37.57 | |
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Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell present the first study comprehensively to define this emerging field, exploring all aspects of using GIS in historical research. A GIS is a form of database in which every item of data is linked to a spatial location. This technology offers unparalleled opportunities to add insight and rejuvenate historical research through the ability to identify and use the geographical characteristics of data. Historical GIS introduces the basic concepts and tools underpinning GIS technology, describing and critically assessing the visualisation, analytical and e-science methodologies that it enables and examining key scholarship where GIS has been used to enhance research debates. The result is a clear agenda charting how GIS will develop as one of the most important approaches to scholarship in historical geography.
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• Excellent Overview Of Historical Gis 04 March, 2008
This book provides an excellent introduction and overview of Historical GIS. It is very well laid out, providing an overall introduction to the capabilities of GIS in its traditional context before moving on to case studies of how historical users have utilized Historical GIS.
I appreciate how the book demonstrates both the advantages as well as the drawbacks of using GIS technology in the context of historical research. It cleared up several misperceptions I had about GIS in general, which probably could have been done with any number of other GIS books out there, but as a historian, I appreciated the book being catered to my audience as opposed to a general reader.
The book is of similar quality as a college textbook, and appears to be used as such. While the authors do not assume the reader has a working knowledge of GIS, they do assume a basic understanding of the goals of GIS and how it might have potential in the field of historical research.
I highly recommend it to anyone in the field.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2SJCFUTANFBJR
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