Spatio-temporal narratives: historical GIS and the study of global trading networks (1500-1800)

• Type: Book
• Date: 2014

Authors

Crespo Solana, Ana (Editor) Other

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences

Other information

Abstract (EN): his book explores new methods and techniques for research about merchant networks and maritime routes of trade during the First Global Age through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a tool to visualize the formation of trading systems, database management, cartography and spatio-temporal analysis in Historical GIS. In doing so, the book focuses on key issues in understanding the birth of the so-called First Global Age (16th to 18th centuries): the integration of spatial economies; the regionalization of markets; the organization of maritime trade routes; and the evolution of self-organizing networks of merchants, producers, communities, and other social agents during the age of expansion. The essays collected here deal with relevant information about historical problems including maritime connections, the organization of oceanic trade and the use of digital cartography and metric analysis of old maps, and social network analysis – commercial networks involved a high level of cooperation and served to move goods and people within a highly open system over an expanding geographic space.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 353

ISBN: 978-1-4438-5542-6