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Using GIS for Spatial and Temporal Analyses in Print Culture Studies

Some Opportunities and Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Bertrum H. MacDonald  and
Fiona A. Black
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In the five centuries since Gutenberg introduced printing with movable type, Western society has been thoroughly infused by print culture.This culture, a complex mosaic of numerous factors, has recently become the focus of extensive historical research.The history of print culture, frequently referred to as the “history of the book,” concerns those aspects of a society that relate to the production, distribution, and reception of printed materials, whether canonical works of literature or ephemeral items such as newspapers and handbills. Authorship, publishing, regulation, bookselling, libraries, and reading are some of the aspects examined. Because print culture permeates all of society, the study of its history has captured the interest of a wide range of researchers: an array of historians of various types and periods (e.g., social, labor, cultural, and legal historians; historians of religion and ideas; and historians of science and technology), literary scholars (of various periods and genres), sociologists, information scientists and librarians, geographers, and bibliographers, among others. As might be expected, scholars of this diversity bring a wide breadth of perspectives to the subject.

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Special Issue: Historical GIS: The Spatial Turn in Social Science History
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Social Science History , Volume 24 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Historical GIS: The Spatial Turn in Social Science History , fall 2000 , pp. 505 - 536
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2000 

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