Public Lectures

Friday, September 22, 2006
10:30am

About the presenter

Robert 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.

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Video segment 1
Simultaneous change over space and time

Video segment 2
Uneven development, regional disparities, and rail transport

Video segment 3
Influence of topography on regional differences in the accessibility of rail transport

Video segment 4
Advertising and cultural change

Video segment 5
Summary: Importance of geographical thinking for historians

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