ABSTRACT
Spatial history, a field that is still coming into clear focus, combines the geographer’s focus on landscape variation with the historian’s analysis of past social structures and their transformation. Yet early on, Richard White noted the challenge of representing movement and change over time and through space simultaneously. As he points out, GIS ‘often ends up emphasizing not the constructed-ness of space, but rather its given-ness’. 1 Nevertheless, White simply proposes more compelling visualization. He does not introduce a theoretical or analytical agenda that would allow the field to integrate complex spatial and temporal processes in a single interpretive model, nor does he suggest a methodological alternative to GIS.
