The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship.

"Space -- whether it be the space of the choreographer's dance floor, the artist's canvas, or the religious shrine -- has always been important to humanist scholarship. But in recent years a virtual explosion of new data, tools, and concepts has revolutionized our ability to examine the relationships, patterns, and contexts that emerge when the human world is examined through a spatial lens. This book brings these ideas into focus for the first time, presenting a cornucopia of ideas, examples, methods, and suggestions for further reading that will be invaluable to anyone seeking to adopt a spatial approach to humanist scholarship, or to understand why it has attracted so much recent attention." -- Michael F. Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara.