On the Relations of Geography and History

Darby, H. C.

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“…In the case of Literature, it is only recently that the discipline has opened new venues of research, looking to explore the spatial nature of texts, attending to the so‐called ‘spatial turn’ (Moretti 2005; 2013; Cooper and Gregory ; Gregory and Hardie ). On the spatial turn, see Darby (), Wright () and Warf and Arias (). The essential core of many such disciplines is written material and therefore, in order to take further the exploration of the geographic and spatial dimensions of diverse subjects within Humanities, a crucial step is to be able to integrate and analyze textual sources with spatial technologies.…”

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Automatically Analyzing Large Texts in aGISEnvironment: The Registrar General's Reports and Cholera in the 19th Century

Murrieta-Flores

Baron

Gregory

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Transactions in GIS

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The aim of this article is to present new research showcasing how Geographic Information Systems in combination with Natural Language Processing and Corpus Linguistics methods can offer innovative venues of research to analyze large textual collections in the Humanities, particularly in historical research. Using as examples parts of the collection of the Registrar General's Reports that contain more than 200,000 pages of descriptions, census data and vital statistics for the UK, we introduce newly developed automated textual tools and well known spatial analyses used in combination to investigate a case study of the references made to cholera and other diseases in these historical sources, and their relationship to place-names during Victorian times. The integration of such techniques has allowed us to explore, in an automatic way, this historical source containing millions of words, to examine the geographies depicted in it, and to identify textual and geographic patterns in the corpus.

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Automatically Analyzing Large Texts in aGISEnvironment: The Registrar General's Reports and Cholera in the 19th Century

Murrieta-Flores

Baron

Gregory

et al. 2014

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“…Sukladno tome u radu su upotrijebljeni radovi koji razrađuju samo pojedine aspekte historijskogeografskih zbivanja: radovi o teoriji i metodologiji historijske geografije (Darby, 1953;Higounet, 1961;Jagër, 1969;Butlin, 1993;Komušanac i Šterc, 2010;Schenk, 2011;Komušanac, 2011), specijalistički radovi pojedinih područja unutar historijske geografije (Graham i Nash, 2000;Fuerst-Bjeliš i Zupanc, 2007a, 2007b te primjeri historijskogeografskih istraživanja u objašnjenju izvornosti i tradicionalnosti prostornih cjelina (Blanc, 1952(Blanc, /1953Fuerst-Bjeliš, 1996a, 1996bBoyer, 1972;Fuerst-Bjeliš, 2012;Pejnović, 2009b;Rogić, 1991). Nezaobilazni su bili i radovi o teoriji geografije (Darby, 1962;Šterc, 1987, 1989Vresk, 1997), razvoju i poziciji geografije (Rogić, 1987;Crkvenčić, 2007;Komušanac i Šterc, 2011), ulozi geografskih istraživanja u različitim oblicima planiranja (Magaš, 2007;Nejašmić, 2011) i oni o formiranju nacionalnoga prostornog identiteta (Šakić, 2009;Pejnović, 2009a;Šterc, 2012).…”

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“…Fundamentalnost historijske geografije proizlazi iz njezina predmetnog postavljanja i odvijanja povijesnih zbivanja u povijesnom prostoru te njihova razmatranja i objašnjavanja u kontekstu interaktivne uvjetovanosti prirodnih elemenata i/ili društvenih čimbenika u geografskom prostoru (široj prostornoj kategoriji), povezujući time osnovne istraživačke, teorijske, predmetne, znanstvene, intermedijarne i druge geografske kategorije, prostor i vrijeme te potvrđujući time svoju opću teorijsku znanstvenu identifikaciju i jedinstvo s geografskim znanstvenim sustavom (Darby, 1953;Butlin, 1993;Guelke, 1997;Komušanac, 2011), a specifičnu kroz regionalni historijskogeografski pristup i primjenu u analizama tradicionalnih historijskogeografskih regija (Blanc, 1952(Blanc, /1953Rogić, 1991;Fuerst-Bjeliš, 1996b, 2012Pejnović, 2009b). Sama fundamentalnost izvedena je iz kritike već pomalo uvriježenog stava da su društveno-povijesna zbivanja definirala i usmjerila promjene prostornog okvira u kojima su se dogodila, a zapravo je jasno, kao i u slučaju prirodnih i društvenih geografskih faktora u čijem se razmatranju postavljaju korelacija i smisao koju prostor njome dobiva, da takve relacije nisu jednosmjerne ni jednostavne i da uvijek istodobno postoji kontinuitet jednog faktora i diskontinuitet drugog/drugih faktora (Guelke, 1997).…”

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Theoretical Postulates of Historical-geographical Cognition Applicability

Komušanac¹

2014

Hrv. geogr. glas.

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Pristup u radu iz 2010. godine iste autorice (suautorice) razmatrao je i postavio temeljni identitet historijske geografije kao fundamentalne geografske discipline (u smislu njezine sekundarne fundamentalnosti), dok je cilj ovoga rada u okviru teorijskoga koncepta sagledati primjenjivost historijskogeografskih pristupa i spoznaja u brojnim planiranjima i spoznajno-analitičkim definiranjima prostornih zakonitosti i modela. Metodološki se sustav zasniva primarno na misaonim (logičkim ili filozofskim) metodama, uvažavajući teorijske pristupe geografije i povijesti i potvrđujući opravdanost historijskogeografskih analiza u razumijevanju objektivne stvarnosti u geografskom prostoru, a rezultati promišljanja opravdavaju značenje historijske geografije u znanstvenome, obrazovnom i planerskom sustavu. Razmatrajući zakonitosti, uvjetovanost te funkcionalno razumijevanje i modeliranje u dvije osnovne filozofske kategorije -prostoru i vremenu, historijska geografija i njezine spoznaje ključna su pretpostavka razumijevanja prostorno-vremenske uvjetovanosti u planiranju regionalnih (prostornih) jedinica ili cjelina.Ključne riječi: historijska geografija, teorijske postavke, primjenjivost historijskogeografskih spoznaja Theoretical Postulates of Historical-geographical Cognition ApplicabilityThe former approach of the 2010 paper written by the same author (co-author) has observed and placed the basic identity of historical geography as the fundamental geography discipline (within the meaning of its secondary particularity), whilst this work aims to consider the appliance of the historical-geographical approach and epistemology in numerous planning and gnostically-analytical definitions of spatial laws and models. Doing honour in this way to the theoretical geography and history approaches, the methodological system is primary based on speculative (logical or philosophical) methods and is affirming the justifiability of historical-geographical analysis in objective reality comprehension in geographical space, with the research results justifying the meaning of historical geography in the scientific, educational and planning system. Taking into account the laws, conditionality and functional understanding and modelling within the two basic philosophical categories of space and time, historical geography and its cognitions form the crucial presumption of space-time conditionality understanding in future regional (spatial) units or complex planning.

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“…Notes 1. The crucial papers were perhaps Darby (1953) and Clark (1954), but the influence of the two lay more in their academic networks that enabled them to place students in many important departments.…”

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Power, Modernity, and Historical Geography

Harris

1991

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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I Abstract. In the changed intellectual climate since historical geography emerged as a substantial geographical subfield, issues of power and modernity have come much to the fore. For Michel Foucault, power is less a property than a strategy and i s widely distributed in cultural discourses and their settings. For Jurgen Habermas, modernity imposes a distinctive context of communications that undermines the stability of traditional lifeworlds and holds out a largely unfulfilled promise of rationality. For Anthony Ciddens, the agency and settings of power cannot be conceptualized separate-SSUES of power and modernity now preoccupy much of the literature in social theory and, in various ways, penetrate the social sciences, including human geography. There they contribute to an intellectual environment quite unlike that in the 1950sand 1960s when A. H. Clark in the U.S. and Clifford Darby in England established historical geography as a substantial geographical subfield.' Then positivism was much in the air; arguments raged about the extent to which geography could be a law-finding science of spatial relations. Historical geography itself emerged partly in reaction t o the view of geography as a spatial science. Now, human geography increasingly reflects broad, interdisciplinary interests in culture, the political implications of authorship, and elaborate post-Marxian and post-Weberian accounts of the changing dynamics of power as societies become modern. In the process, theory i s being reconceptualized as broad, interrelated sets of ideas t o be worked with suggestively rather than treated as candidates for laws. Geography is becoming sensitive to culture as well as space, to the past, and to the changing spatial configuration of power. Within this intellectual revolution, historical and much of the rest of human geography are converging-by backing into each other.This essay deals with this convergence and its implications by considering the current interdisciplinary interest in power and modernity. It touches on the work of four remarkable scholars-Michel Foucault, a French historian of, he said, systems of thought; Jurgen Habermas, a German critical theorist; and two English sociologists, Anthony Giddens and Michael Mann-all of whom have written tellingly and, for geographers, exceedingly suggestively, on the changing conduct of power as societies become modern. Then I consider the relevance of some of their ideas to the practice of historical geography and to the relationship of the subfield t o human geography as a whole. The essay i s a foray, and a somewhat personal one at that. Yet, although the four certainly do not represent all the current literature on modernity and power, there are good reasons for dealing with them: Foucault, more than anyone, has rekindled an interest in culture, largely by thinking about power as no one quite had before him; Habermas has proceeded from an 672 Harris analysis of t h e act of communication t o a vast, influential theory of the emerging character and predicament of mo...

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On the Relations of Geography and History

Cited by 48 publications

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Automatically Analyzing Large Texts in aGISEnvironment: The Registrar General's Reports and Cholera in the 19th Century

Automatically Analyzing Large Texts in aGISEnvironment: The Registrar General's Reports and Cholera in the 19th Century

Theoretical Postulates of Historical-geographical Cognition Applicability

Power, Modernity, and Historical Geography

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