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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Vanderbilt University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050713000284
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 313-338
• 关键词: factor-price convergence; UNITED-STATES; 19th-century; GROWTH; LAND; railroads; location

摘要

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.