The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship

Geographic information systems (GIS) have spurred a renewed interest in the influence of geographical space on human behavior and cultural development. Ideally GIS enables humanities scholars to discover relationships of memory, artifact, and experience that exist in a particular place and across time. Although successfully used by other disciplines, efforts by humanists to apply GIS and the spatial analytic method in their studies have been limited...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253222176
• ISBN13: 9780253222176
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"