Historical geography, GIScience and textual analysis : landscapes of time and place

Historical geography, GIScience and textual analysis : landscapes of time and place / Charles Travis, Francis Ludlow, Ferenc Gyuris, editors.

This book illustrates how literature, history and geographical analysis complement and enrich each others disciplinary endeavors. The Hun-Lenox Globe, constructed in 1510, contains the Latin phrase 'Hic sunt dracones' ('Here be dragons'), warning sailors of the dangers of driftin...

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Other Authors: Travis, Charles, 1964- (Editor), Ludlow, Francis (Editor), Gyuris, Ferenc (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2020.
Series:Historical Geography and Geosciences.
Subjects:
Historical geography.
Historical geographic information systems.
Geographical information systems (GIS) & remote sensing.
Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge.
Limnology (freshwater)
Society & culture: general.
Literature: history & criticism.
Science > Earth Sciences > Geography.
Philosophy > Epistemology.
Science > Life Sciences > Biology > Marine Biology.
Social Science > General.
Literary Criticism > General.
History > Historical Geography.
Historical geographic information systems
Historical geography
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Landscape, Time, Text
  • Ch.1 Ghost Cathedral of the Blackland Prairie: Waxahachie, Texas, Places in the Heart and the Superconducting Super Collider
  • Ch.2 Digital Mapping and the Narrative Stratigraphy of Iceland
  • Ch.3 Dead Men Tell Tales: History and Science at Duffys Cut
  • Ch.4 'Please Mention the Green Book: The Negro Motorist Green Book as Critical GIS
  • Part II: Cultures, Networks and Mobilities
  • Ch.5 Queer Cartographies: Urban Redevelopment and the Changing Sexual Geography of Postwar San Francisco
  • Ch.6 Revisiting the Walking City: A Geospatial Examination of the Journey to Work
  • Ch.7 Corruption and Development of Atlanta Streetcar Lines in the Nineteenth Century: A Historical GIS Perspective
  • Ch.8 "A brother Orangeman the world over": Migration and the Geography of the Orange Order in the United States
  • Part III: Climate, Weather, Environment
  • Ch.9 Mining Weather and Climate Data from the Diary of a Forty-Niner
  • Ch.10 Unmappable Variables: GIS and the Complicated Historical Geography of Water in the Rio Grande Project
  • Ch.11 Supplying the Conquest: A Geospatial Visualization and Interpretation of Available Environmental Resources at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.-Ch.12 Mapping the Irish Rath (Ringfort): Landscape Settlement Patterns in the Early Medieval Period
  • Part IV: Place, Philology, History
  • Ch.13 Mapping Power: Using HGIS and Linked Open Data to Study Ancient Greek Garrison Communities
  • Ch.14 The Preservation of Paradox: Bismarck Towers as National Metaphor and Local Reality
  • Ch.15 Mapping the Historical Transformation of Beijings Regional Naming System
  • Ch.16 Geographical Enrichment of Historical Landscapes: Spatial Integration, Geo-Narrative, Spatial Narrative, and Deep Mapping.

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