Further reading

For an expanded coverage how the topics discussed during the course can be implemented in R, see Pebesma (2022), Tennekes (2022), Pebesma and Bivand (2023), Gimond (2022), Moraga (2023) and Lovelace, Nowosad, and Muenchow (2024).

For more details on GIS and mapping, see Crampton (2010) and Bolstad and Manson (2023). The series of blogposts, The “correct” map and The true size of countries by Miguel García Álvarez provides a very useful overview of Coordinate Reference Systems and cartographic projections. Also, for an entertaining and didactic introduction to maps in general, see Paulina Rowińska’s book: Mapmatics: A mathematician’s guide to navigating the world.

For a more detailed discussion on how historians use GIS tools, see I. N. Gregory and Ell (2007), Knowles and Hillier (2008), Martí-Henneberg (2011), I. Gregory and Geddes (2014), I. Gregory, DeBats, and Lafreniere (2018); Lawson, Bavaj, and Struck (2021), Travis, Ludlow, and Gyuris (2020), Cole and Giordano (2022), Mogorovich and Salvatori (2022) and McDonough (2024). Spatial history nonetheless comes in a variety of forms, not necessarily involving using GIS tools (Bavaj 2022). Maps actually constitute another historical source, so they contain useful information that helps knowing more about the past. In this regard, historians of maps and mapping practices often study maps as cultural objects (McDonough 2024, 99). Schulten (2012) and Spychal (2024), for instance, trace the growing use of maps in the US and UK during the 19th century as tools for shaping history, policy and national identity.

For the humanities in general see Bodenhamer, Corrigan, and Harris (2010), Presner and Shepard (2015) and Bodenhamer, Corrigan, and Harris (2010) for a discussion on the geospatial turn in the humanities in general. Cooper, Donaldson, and Murrieta-Flores (2016) is specifically aimed at mapping in literary studies.

For the social social sciences, especially for economics, see Overman (2010) or Kudamatsu (2018). In this field, it is common to model spatial dependencies in regression analysis. An introduction in R can be found in Pebesma and Bivand (2023, ch. 17). Taro Mieno is writing a book entitled R as GIS for Economists. Likewise, the growing use of satellite data in economics is surveyed in Donaldson and Storeygard (2016).

References

Bavaj, Riccardo. 2022. “Introduction: Spatial History. An Expansive Field.” In Doing Spatial History, edited by Riccardo Bavaj, Konrad Lawson, and Bernhard Struck, 1–36. Routledge.
Bodenhamer, David J., John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris. 2010. The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship. Indiana University Press.
Bolstad, Paul, and Steven Manson. 2023. GIS Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems. Baken & Taylor.
Cole, Tim, and Alberto Giordano. 2022. “Digital Mapping.” In Doing Spatial History, edited by Riccardo Bavaj, Konrad Lawson, and Bernhard Struck, 274–87. Routledge.
Cooper, David, Christopher Donaldson, and Patricia Murrieta-Flores. 2016. Literary Mapping in the Digital Age. Routledge.
Crampton, J. W. 2010. Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS. Londong: John Wiley & Sons.
Donaldson, Dave, and Adam Storeygard. 2016. “The View from Above: Applications of Satellite Data in Economics.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 30 (4): 171–98.
Gimond, Manuel. 2022. Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis. https://mgimond.github.io/Spatial/index.html.
Gregory, Ian N., and Paul S. Ell. 2007. “GIS and Its Role in Historical Research: An Introduction.” In Historical GIS: Technologies, Methodologies, and Scholarship, edited by I. N. Gregory and P. S. Ell. Cambridge University Press.
Gregory, Ian, Don DeBats, and Don Lafreniere. 2018. The Routledge Companion to Spatial History. Routledge.
Gregory, Ian, and Alistair Geddes. 2014. “Introduction: From Historical GIS to Spatial Humanities: Deepening Scholarship and Broadening Technology.” In Toward Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History, edited by Ian Gregory and Alistair Geddes. Indiana University Press.
Knowles, Anne Kelly, and Amy Hillier. 2008. Placing History: How GIS Is Changing Historical Scholarship. ESRI Press.
Kudamatsu, Masayuki. 2018. “GIS for Credible Identification Strategies in Economics Research.” CESifo Economic Studies 64 (2): 327–38.
Lawson, Konrad, Riccardo Bavaj, and Bernhard Struck. 2021. A Guide to Spatial History: Areas, Aspects and Avenues of Research. Olsokhagen Publishing.
Lovelace, Robin, Jakub Nowosad, and Jannes Muenchow. 2024. Geocomputation with r. CRC Press.
Martí-Henneberg, Jordi. 2011. “Geographical Information Systems and the Study of History.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 42 (1): 1–13.
McDonough, Katherine. 2024. “Maps as Data.” In Computational Humanities, edited by Lauren Tilton, David Mimno, and Jessica Marie Johnson, 99–126. University of Minnesota Press.
Mogorovich, Paolo, and Enrica Salvatori. 2022. “Historical GIS.” In Handbook of Digital Public History, edited by Serge Noiret, Mark Teabeau, and Gerben Zaagsma, 419–30. De Gruyter.
Moraga, Paula. 2023. Spatial Statistics for Data Science: Theory and Practice with r. Chapman & Hall/CRC.
Overman, Henry G. 2010. “Gis a Job: What Use Geographical Information Systems in Spatial Economics.” Journal of Regional Science 50 (1): 165–80.
Pebesma, Edzer. 2022. “Sf: Simple Features for r.” https://doi.org/https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sf.
Pebesma, Edzer, and Roger Bivand. 2023. Spatial Data Science: With Applications in R. Boca Raton: Chapman; Hall/CRC. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429459016.
Presner, Todd, and David Shepard. 2015. “Mapping the Geospatial Turn.” In A New Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth, 199–212. Wiley.
Schulten, Susan. 2012. Mapping the Nation. History and Cartograpy in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago University Press.
Spychal, Martin. 2024. Mapping the State. English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act. Royal Historical Society.
Tennekes, Martijn. 2022. “Tmap: Thematic Maps.” https://doi.org/https://github.com/r-tmap/tmap.
Travis, Charles, Francis Ludlow, and Ferenc Gyuris. 2020. Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis: Landscapes of Time and Place. Springer.