Scylla and charybdis 2.0: reconstructing colonial Spanish American territories between metropolitan dream and effective control, historical ambiguities and cybernetic determinism

This paper tries to outline the main methodological obstacles that have to be addressed and overcome at reconstructing late colonial Spanish American territories and their development by means of a historical Geographic Information System (HGIS). First we try to show how historians with a broad gamu...

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Hovedforfatter: Werner Stangl
Format: Article
Sprog:English
Udgivet: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2015-06-01
Serier:Culture & History Digital Journal
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Online adgang:http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/72