Abstract Machine Humanities GIS

Name: Abstract Machine Humanities GIS
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ISBN: 9781589483682

ISBN-10: 1589483685

ISBN-13: 9781589483682

Edition: 2015

Authors: Charles B. Travis

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Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS is a scholarly monography that uses the ArcGIS toolkit to better understand and interpret literary, historical, and philosophical texts. The author uses GIS as an electronic stylus, digital cuneiform, and electronic paintbrush to visualize literary language, landscapes, space, and concepts using symbols, images and colors, with a special focus on examples from Irish literature and history. Such a model resurrects the practice of geographia from its ancient Greek and Roman roots, when the discipline constituted a literary genre more so than a branch of physical science. By applying the science of GIS, scholars in the humanities and associated disciplines can…

Book details

List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: ESRI, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/1/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 175
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English