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On the Use of Geographic Information Systems in Economic History: The American Transportation Revolution Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2013

Jeremy Atack
Jeremy Atack*
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Professor of Economics and Professor of History, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Box 351819 Station B, Nashville, TN 37235. E-mail: [email protected].
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Abstract

Transportation improvements in the nineteenth century loom large in the historiography of the profession during the twentieth century. This article describes the ongoing construction of a historical geographic information systems (GIS) transportation database designed to provide new insights into the impact of the transportation and communications revolution in the continental United States by providing evidence on the spatial dimensions of those changes over time. It also reviews some preliminary findings and reinterpretations based upon these data.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , June 2013 , pp. 313 - 338
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