ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|124 pages
Population and demography
chapter 3|22 pages
Railroads and population distribution
chapter 4|16 pages
Enhancing life-courses
chapter 5|38 pages
Relating economic and demographic change in the United States from 1970 to 2012
part II|91 pages
Spatial economic history
chapter 7|17 pages
De Geer revisited
part III|126 pages
Urban spatial history
chapter 13|28 pages
‘Kleindeutschland’, the Lower East Side in New York City at Tompkins Square in the 1880s
chapter 14|21 pages
Following workers of the industrial city across a decade
chapter 15|28 pages
‘A city of the white race occupies its place’
part IV|176 pages
Spatial rural and environmental history
chapter 17|19 pages
The post, the railroad and the state
chapter 18|20 pages
Using GIS to transition from contemporary to historical geographical research
chapter 19|23 pages
Food, farms, and fish in Great Britain and France, 1860–1914
part V|88 pages
Spatial political history
chapter 20|20 pages
White maps and black votes
part VI|19 pages
Spatial humanities