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2008 (Redlands, Calif.: ESRI Press); both are edited by A. K. Knowles.
A special edition of Social Science Computer Review (vol. 27, no. 3), ed-
ited by T. J. Bailey and J. B. M. Schick; a Dutch volume, Tijd en Rui-
mte: Nieuwe toepassingen van GIS in de alfawetenschappen (Time and
space: New applications of GIS in the humanities) (Utrecht: DANS),
edited by O. Boonstra and A. Schuurman; and a double issue of the
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (vol. 3, nos.
1-2) that was largely devoted to historical GIS appeared in 2009. Most
recently, M. Dear, J. Ketchum, S. Luria, and D. R ichardson, eds., GeoHu-
manities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place (New York: Routledge,
2011) contains a section of nine chapters on spatial histories.
There is an increasing trend for new collections to be more focused
on particular aspects of historical GIS and/or spatial history. These in-
clude a 2008 special edition of the Journal of the Association of History
and Computing (vol. 11, no. 2), which was concerned with teaching using
historical GIS; a 2010 special section of Social Science History (vol. 34,
no. 2) devoted to using historical GIS to study railways and political
economy; a 2011 special issue of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History
(vol. 42, no. 1), edited by J. Marti Henneberg, that again looks at railways
and society; and a 2011 special issue of Social Science History (vol. 35,
no. 4), focused on historical GIS and urban history and edited by D. A.
DeBats and I. N. Gregory.
There has also been a developing literature that explores what GIS
has to offer to historical research, including I. N. Gregory, K. K. Kemp,
and R. Mostern, “Geographical Information and Historical Research:
Current Progress and Future Directions,” History and Computing 13
(2001): 7-24; P. Doorn, “A Spatial Turn in History,” GIM International 19,
no. 4 (2005), htp://www.gim-international.com/issues/articles/id453-
A_Spatial_Turn_in_History.html; I. N. Gregory and R. G. Healey,
“Historical GIS: Structuring, Mapping and Analyzing the Geographies
of the Past,” Progress in Human Geography 31 (2007): 638-53; I. N.
Gregory and P. S. Ell, Historical GIS: Technologies, Methodologies and
Scholarship (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007); and two
chapters in Knowles, Placing History, the first by A. K. Knowles, “GIS
and History,” 1-26, and the second by D. J. Bodenhamer, “History and
GIS: Implications for the Discipline,” 219-34.
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