Overview
- Integrates Historical Geography, GIScience, Geosciences and Textual Studies in a unique way
- Utilizes quantitative and qualitative approaches relevant to Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Arts & Humanities (STEAM) collaborations
- Contains many case studies in Historical Geography
Part of the book series: Historical Geography and Geosciences (HIGEGE)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Landscape, Time, Text
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Cultures, Networks and Mobilities
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Climate, Weather, Environment
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About this book
Time as a multi-scaled concept (again, broadly conceived) is the pivot around which the interdisciplinary contributions to this volume revolve. In The Landscape of Time (2002) the historian John Lewis Gaddis posits: “What if we were to think of history as a kind of mapping?” He links the ancient practice of mapmaking with the three-part conception of time (past, present, and future). Gaddis presents the practices of cartography and historical narrative as attempts to manage infinitely complex subjects by imposing abstract grids to frame the phenomena being examined— longitude and latitude to frame landscapes and, occidental and oriental temporal scales to frame timescapes. Gaddis contends that if the past is a landscape and history is the way we represent it, then it follows that pattern recognition constitutes a primary form of human perception, one that can be parsed empirically, statistically and phenomenologically. In turn, this volume reasons that literary, historical, cartographical, scientific, mathematical, and counterfactual narratives create their own spatio-temporal frames of reference. Confluences between the poetic and the positivistic; the empirical and the impressionistic; the epic and the episodic; and the chronologic and the chorologic, can be identified and studied by integrating practices in historical geography, GIScience / geoscience and textual analysis. As a result, new perceptions and insights, facilitating further avenues of scholarship into uncharted waters emerge. The various ways in which geographical, historical and textual perspectives are hermeneutically woven together in this volume illuminates the different methods with which to explore terrae incognitaes of knowledge beyond the shores of their own separate disciplinary islands.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis
Book Subtitle: Landscapes of Time and Place
Editors: Charles Travis, Francis Ludlow, Ferenc Gyuris
Series Title: Historical Geography and Geosciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37569-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37568-3Published: 01 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37571-3Published: 01 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37569-0Published: 29 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2520-1379
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1387
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 272
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 91 illustrations in colour
Topics: Historical Geography, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Epistemology, Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Literary History