Spatio-temporal narratives : historical GIS and the study of global trading networks (1500-1800) / edited by Ana Crespo Solana.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crespo Solana, Ana.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trade routes--History.

Trade routes.

Geographic information systems.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 341 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Summary:

This 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Wider World: Spatial Expansion and Integration in the Hispanic Atlantic, 16th to 18th Centuries / Ana Crespo Solana Solana, Ana Crespo 1

Chapter 2 Temporal GIS for Historical Research / May Yuan Yuan, May 45

Chapter 3 Intentionally-Linked Entities: A Better Database System for Representing Dynamic Social Networks, Narrative Geographic Information and General Abstractions of Reality / Vitit Kantabutra Kantabutra, Vitit, J. B. "Jack" Owens Owens, J. B. "Jack", Ana Crespo Solana Solana, Ana Crespo 56

Chapter 4 Agents of Empire: Spatial Network Analysis in Comparative Studies During the Early Modern Age / Ernesto Salas Tovar Tovar, Ernesto Salas, Esther Pérez Asensio Asensio, Esther Pérez, Isabel del Bosque Bosque, Isabel del, Ana Crespo Solana Solana, Ana Crespo, Roberto Maestre Martinez Martinez, Roberto Maestre 79

Chapter 5 Northern Portuguese Commercial Networks and the Geographies of Trade in the Early Modem Period / Amandio Jorge Morais Barros Barros, Amandio Jorge Morais 102

Chapter 6 Trade Networks in the First Global Age: The Case Study of Simon Ruiz Company: Visualization Methods and Spatial Projections / Amélia Polonia Polonia, Amélia, Sara Pinto Pinto, Sara, Ana Ribeiro Ribeiro, Ana 140

Chapter 7 Complexity and Merchant Networks: Evidences from Early Modern Castile / David Alonso García García, David Alonso 178

Chapter 8 Spatial Concentration in Early Modern Maritime Trade and Transport: Towards a Model for Economic-Historical Analysis using GIS / Werner Scheltjens Scheltjens, Werner 197

Chapter 9 From Region to Locale and From Space to Place: Locating Srihatta/Sylhet in the Medieval Bay of Bengal World / Rila Mukherjee Mukherjee, Rila 213

Chapter 10 Mapping and Visualization of Commercial Networks in the Pacific Ocean during the 17th century / Antoni Picazo Muntaner Muntaner, Antoni Picazo 228

Chapter 11 Geographic Information Systems Applied to Metric Analysis of Old Maps: 16th-century Maps / Antonio Crespo Sanz Sanz, Antonio Crespo 242

Chapter 12 Porting Natural Language Time Expressions into Temporal Databases: A Corpus-Based Methodology / Marta Guerrero Nieto Nieto, Marta Guerrero, Roser Sauri Sauri, Roser 276.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1443855421

9781443855426

OCLC:

887719803

Publisher Number:

99959324762