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The routledge companion to spatial history, edited by Ian Gregory, Don DeBats, Don Lafreniere

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The routledge companion to spatial history

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edited by Ian Gregory, Don DeBats, Don Lafreniere

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The Routledge Companion to Spatial History explores the full range of ways in which GIS can be used to study the past, considering key questions such as what types of new knowledge can be developed solely as a consequence of using GIS and how effective GIS can be for different types of research. Global in scope and covering a broad range of subjects, the chapters in this volume discuss ways of turning sources into a GIS database, methods of analysing these databases, methods of visualising the results of the analyses, and approaches to interpreting analyses and visualisations. Chapter authors draw from a diverse collection of case studies from around the world, covering topics from state power in imperial China to the urban property market in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, health and society in twentieth-century Britain and the demographic impact of the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. Critically evaluating both the strengths and limitations of GIS and illustrated with over two hundred maps and figures, this volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars interested in the use of GIS and spatial analysis as a method of historical research.--, Provided by publisher

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction: spatial history, history, and GIS; Part I Population and demography; Introduction to Part I; 1 Re-focus on women in an industrial revolution: Montreal 1848-1903; 2 Genealogical geography and the generational migration of Europeans to America; 3 Railroads and population distribution: HGIS data and indicators for spatial analysis; 4 Enhancing life-courses: using GIS to construct 'new' aggregate and individual-level data on health and society in twentieth-century Britain; 5 Relating economic and demographic change in the United States from 1970 to 2012: a preliminary examination using GIS and spatial analysis techniques with national data sources; Part II Spatial economic history; Introduction to Part II; 6 Mapping the American iron industry; 7 De Geer revisited: changing territorial and organizational control in the railroad network of the American manufacturing belt, 1850-1900; 8 Creating historical transportation shapefiles of navigable rivers, canals, and railroads for the United States before World War I; 9 Geographies of welfare in nineteenth-century England and Wales; 10 Spatial divisions of poverty and wealth; Part III Urban spatial history; Introduction to Part III; 11 Developing GIS maps for US cities in 1930 and 1940; 12 Geodetic data and spatial photography: new assets for urban history; 13 'Kleindeutschland', the Lower East Side in New York City at Tompkins Square in the 1880s: exploring immigration at street and building level; 14 Following workers of the industrial city across a decade: residential, occupational, and workplace mobilities, 1881-1891;15 'A city of the white race occupies its place': Kanaka Row, Chinatown, and the Indian Quarter in Victorian Victoria; Part IV Spatial rural and environmental history; Introduction to Part IV; 16 Re-evaluating an environmental history icon: the American Dust Bowl; 17 The post, the railroad and the state: an HGIS approach to study Western Canada settlement, 1850-1900; 18 Using GIS to transition from contemporary to historical geographical research: exploring rural land use change in southern England in the twentieth century; 19 Food, farms, and fish in Great Britain and France, 1860-1914: a mixed-methods spatial history; Part V Spatial political history; Introduction to Part V; 20 White maps and black votes: GIS and the electoral dynamics of white and African-American voters in the late nineteenth century; 21 The spatial history of state power: a view from imperial China; 22 Peasants and politics: how GIS offers new insights into the German countryside; 23 Mapping inequality: 'big data' meets social history in the story of redlining