Doing Spatial History

Author : Riccardo Bavaj,Konrad Lawson,Bernhard Struck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0429291736

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Doing Spatial History by Riccardo Bavaj,Konrad Lawson,Bernhard Struck Pdf

"This volume provides a practical introduction to spatial history through the lens of the different primary sources that historians use. It is informed by a range of analytical perspectives and conveys a sense of the various facets of spatial history in a tangible, case-study based manner. The chapter authors hail from a variety of fields, including early modern and modern history, architectural history, historical anthropology, economic and social history, as well as historical and human geography, highlighting the way in which spatial history provides a common forum that facilitates discussion across disciplines. The geographical scope of the volume takes readers on a journey through central, western, and east central Europe, to Russia, the Mediterranean, the Ottoman Empire, and East Asia, as well as North and South America, and New Zealand. Divided into three parts, the book covers particular types of sources, different kinds of space, and specific concepts, tools and approaches, offering the reader a thorough understanding of how sources can be used within spatial history specifically but also the different ways of looking at history more broadly. Very much focusing on doing spatial history, this is an accessible guide for both undergraduate and postgraduate students within modern history and its related fields"--

Author : Riccardo Bavaj,Konrad Lawson,Bernhard Struck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000518825

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Doing Spatial History by Riccardo Bavaj,Konrad Lawson,Bernhard Struck Pdf

This volume provides a practical introduction to spatial history through the lens of the different primary sources that historians use. It is informed by a range of analytical perspectives and conveys a sense of the various facets of spatial history in a tangible, case-study based manner. The chapter authors hail from a variety of fields, including early modern and modern history, architectural history, historical anthropology, economic and social history, as well as historical and human geography, highlighting the way in which spatial history provides a common forum that facilitates discussion across disciplines. The geographical scope of the volume takes readers on a journey through central, western, and east central Europe, to Russia, the Mediterranean, the Ottoman Empire, and East Asia, as well as North and South America, and New Zealand. Divided into three parts, the book covers particular types of sources, different kinds of space, and specific concepts, tools and approaches, offering the reader a thorough understanding of how sources can be used within spatial history specifically but also the different ways of looking at history more broadly. Very much focusing on doing spatial history, this is an accessible guide for both undergraduate and postgraduate students within modern history and its related fields.

Author : Konrad Lawson,Riccardo Bavaj,Bernhard Struck
Publisher : Olsokhagen
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781737136811

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A Guide to Spatial History by Konrad Lawson,Riccardo Bavaj,Bernhard Struck Pdf

This guide provides an overview of the thematic areas, analytical aspects, and avenues of research which, together, form a broader conversation around doing spatial history. Spatial history is not a field with clearly delineated boundaries. For the most part, it lacks a distinct, unambiguous scholarly identity. It can only be thought of in relation to other, typically more established fields. Indeed, one of the most valuable utilities of spatial history is its capacity to facilitate conversations across those fields. Consequently, it must be discussed in relation to a variety of historiographical contexts. Each of these have their own intellectual genealogies, institutional settings, and conceptual path dependencies. With this in mind, this guide surveys the following areas: territoriality, infrastructure, and borders; nature, environment, and landscape; city and home; social space and political protest; spaces of knowledge; spatial imaginaries; cartographic representations; and historical GIS research.

Author : Ian Gregory,Don DeBats,Don Lafreniere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351584135

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The Routledge Companion to Spatial History by Ian Gregory,Don DeBats,Don Lafreniere Pdf

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.

Author : Susanne Rau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429509278

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History, Space and Place by Susanne Rau Pdf

Spaces, too, have a history. And history always takes place in spaces. But what do historians mean when they use the word "spaces"? And how can spaces be historically investigated? Susanne Rau provides a survey of the history of Western concepts of space, opens up interdisciplinary approaches to the phenomenon of space in fields ranging from physics and geography to philosophy and sociology, and explains how historical spatial analysis can be methodologically and conceptually conceived and carried out in practice. The case studies presented in the book come from the fields of urban history, the history of trade, and global history including the history of cartography, but its analysis is equally relevant to other fields of inquiry. This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to the theory and methodology of historical spatial analysis. Supported by Open Access funds of the University of Erfurt

Author : Stuart Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315404448

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A History of Place in the Digital Age by Stuart Dunn Pdf

A History of Place in the Digital Age explores the history and impact of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related digital mapping technologies in humanities research. Providing a historical and methodological discussion of place in the most important primary materials which make up the human record, including text and artefacts, the book explains how these materials frame, form and communicate location in the age of the internet. This leads in to a discussion of how the World Wide Web distorts and skews place, amplifying some voices and reducing others. Drawing on several connected case studies from the early modern period to the present day, the spatial writings of early modern antiquarians are explored, as are the roots of approaches to place in archaeology and philosophy. This forms the basis for a review of place online, through the complex history of the invention of the internet, in to the age of the interactive web and social media. By doing so, the book explores the key themes of spatial power and representation which these technologies frame. A History of Place in the Digital Age will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners in a variety of humanities disciplines with an interest in understanding how technology can help them undertake research on spatial themes. It will be of interest as primary work to historians of technology, media and communications.

Author : Ian Gregory,Don DeBats,Don Lafreniere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351584135

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The Routledge Companion to Spatial History by Ian Gregory,Don DeBats,Don Lafreniere Pdf

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.

Author : Trevor J. Barnes,Eric Sheppard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119404712

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Spatial Histories of Radical Geography by Trevor J. Barnes,Eric Sheppard Pdf

A wide-ranging and knowledgeable guide to the history of radical geography in North America and beyond. Includes contributions from an international group of scholars Focuses on the centrality of place, spatial circulation and geographical scale in understanding the rise of radical geography and its spread A celebration of radical geography from its early beginnings in the 1950s through to the 1980s, and after Draws on oral histories by leaders in the field and private and public archives Contains a wealth of never-before published historical material Serves as both authoritative introduction and indispensable professional reference

Author : Ian N. Gregory,Alistair Geddes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253011909

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Toward Spatial Humanities by Ian N. Gregory,Alistair Geddes Pdf

The application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to issues in history is among the most exciting developments in both digital and spatial humanities. Describing a wide variety of applications, the essays in this volume highlight the methodological and substantive implications of a spatial approach to history. They illustrate how the use of GIS is changing our understanding of the geographies of the past and has become the basis for new ways to study history. Contributors focus on current developments in the use of historical sources and explore the insights gained by applying GIS to develop historiography. Toward Spatial Humanities is a compelling demonstration of how GIS can contribute to our historical understanding.

Author : Konrad Lawson,Riccardo Bavaj,Bernhard Struck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1737136805

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A Guide to Spatial History by Konrad Lawson,Riccardo Bavaj,Bernhard Struck Pdf

Author : Anne Kelly Knowles,Amy Hillier
Publisher : ESRI, Inc.
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781589480131

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Placing History by Anne Kelly Knowles,Amy Hillier Pdf

CD-ROM contains: Four Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and interactive mapping exercises, some of which extend the scholarly material and addresses new issues related to historical GIS.

Author : Marcel Fortin,Jennifer Bonnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1552387089

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Historical GIS Research in Canada by Marcel Fortin,Jennifer Bonnell Pdf

Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities. To date, HGIS projects in Canada are few and publications that discuss these projects directly even fewer. This book brings together case studies of HGIS projects in historical geography, social and cultural history, and environmental history from Canada's diverse regions. Projects include religion and ethnicity, migration, indigenous land practices, rebuilding a nineteenth-century neighborhood, and working with Google Earth.

Author : Whitworth, Adam
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447337911

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Towards a Spatial Social Policy by Whitworth, Adam Pdf

Social policy and human geography are intimately intertwined yet frequently disconnected fields. Whilst social policies are always conceived, implemented and experienced in and through geography, the role of place in social policy scholarship and practice is frequently overlooked. Bringing together experts from both fields, this collection illuminates the myriad of ways that human geography offers rich insights conceptually, empirically and methodologically into the neglected spatialities of policy scholarship, practice and experience. By building the necessary bridges towards a spatial social policy, this book enables the enhanced design, performance and understanding of social policies once properly rooted in their multiple spatialities.

Author : Sue Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135092283

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Henri Lefebvre and Education by Sue Middleton Pdf

During his lifetime Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was renowned in France as a philosopher, sociologist and activist. Although he published more than 70 books, few were available in English until The Production of Space was translated in 1991. While this work - often associated with geography - has influenced educational theory’s ‘spatial turn,’ educationalists have yet to consider Lefebvre’s work more broadly. This book engages in an educational reading of the selection of Lefebvre’s work that is available in English translation. After introducing Lefebvre’s life and works, the book experiments with his concepts and methods in a series of five ‘spatial histories’ of educational theories. In addition to The Production of Space, these studies develop themes from Lefebvre’s other translated works: Rhythmanalysis, The Explosion, the three volumes of Critique of Everyday Life and a range of his writings on cities, Marxism, technology and the bureaucratic state. In the course of these inquiries, Lefebvre’s own passionate interest in education is uncovered: his critiques of bureaucratised schooling and universities, the analytic concepts he devised to study educational phenomena, and his educational methods. Throughout the book Middleton demonstrates how Lefebvre’s conceptual and methodological tools can enhance the understanding of the spatiotemporal location of educational philosophy and theory. Bridging disciplinary divides, it will be key reading for researchers and academics studying the philosophy, sociology and history of education, as well as those working in fields beyond education including geography, history, cultural studies and sociology.

Author : Fabrizio Nevola,David Rosenthal,Nicholas Terpstra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000554953

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Hidden Cities by Fabrizio Nevola,David Rosenthal,Nicholas Terpstra Pdf

This groundbreaking collection explores the convergence of the spatial and digital turns through a suite of smartphone apps (Hidden Cities) that present research-led itineraries in early modern cities as public history. The Hidden Cities apps have expanded from an initial case example of Renaissance Florence to a further five historic European cities. This collection considers how the medium structures new methodologies for site-based historical research, while also providing a platform for public history experiences that go beyond typical heritage priorities. It also presents guidelines for user experience design that reconciles the interests of researchers and end users. A central section of the volume presents the underpinning original scholarship that shapes the locative app trails, illustrating how historical research can be translated into public-facing work. The final section examines how history, delivered in the format of geolocated apps, offers new opportunities for collaboration and innovation: from the creation of museums without walls, connecting objects in collections to their original settings, to informing decision-making in city tourism management. Hidden Cities is a valuable resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars across a variety of disciplines including urban history, public history, museum studies, art and architecture, and digital humanities. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.