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Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship
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Vector One has a two parts review of the book named Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship, by Anne Kelly Knowles. From the first part: "Right from the start this book includes a notice that “scholars” claim to write history in a new way, in ways that might suggest the world was born today and history started last night. Not so. So - I warn you now. All the talk about revolutionary historical mapping today is more or less a continuance of the past, just in a different way. And that observation in the many essays presented in this book sheds light on why that is the case - and why this book is interesting to read. At 313 pages, Placing History takes you on a journey. This is not an A-B sort of trip. Instead, it is a trip to open your mind, to expand your boundaries and to cause you to think about geographic information systems - and geographic information science - and their relevance to historical perspective." The book on Amazon.
Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship
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