Public Lectures
"Railways, Uneven Geographic Development, and a Crisis of Globalization in France and Britain, 1830-1914"
Robert Schwartz, Mt. Holyoke College
2006 Pauley Symposium: History in the Digital Age
Friday, September 22, 2006, 10:30am
About the PresenterRobert Schwartz is E. Nevius Rodman Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College and has published widely on 19th-century France. His current work blends social history and geographic data to analyze the experience of railroad expansion in France and Britain. His talk will feature Historical GIS data sets drawn from the Great Britain Historical GIS project, the U.S. Shuttle Radar Mission, and various GIS data at the University of Burgundy. Schwartz' current work is aimed also at promoting more cross-disciplinary work uniting history and geography. View Portions of the PresentationPortions of this lecture are hosted on the Digital History Project's YouTube Channel and open in a new window. View excerpts of "Railways, Uneven Geographic Development, and a Crisis of Globalization in France and Britain, 1830-1914." |
BlogView a live-blogged entry about this presentation. EssayAn essay based upon ideas presented in this lecture and separately edited for print publication is available. InterviewThis presenter participated in our ongoing series of Digital History interviews. |
