Historical GIS : Technologies, Methodologies, and Scholarship (Paperback)

List of figures; List of tables; 1. GIS and its role in historical research: an introduction; 2. GIS: a framework for representing the Earth's surface; 3. Building historical GIS databases; 4. Basic approaches to handling data in a historical GIS; 5. Using GIS to visualise historical data; 6. Time in historical GIS databases; 7. Geographic information retrieval: historical geographic information on the internet and in digital libraries; 8. GIS and quantitative spatial analysis; 9. From techniques to knowledge: historical GIS in practice; References.