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There is much descriptive literature for using GIS, but here we list some of the texts on using GIS for history, and in some cases, rural history:

Beazley, Susan L., and Kenneth B. Beesley. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Agriculture: A Bibliography. Research Paper No. 18, Rural Research Centre, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, link

Burrough, P.A., and R. McDonell. Principles of Geographical Information Systems for Land Resources Assessment, 2nd ed. Oxford: Claredon Press, 1998.

Gregory, I.N. A Place in History: A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research. Oxford: Oxbow Books for the Arts and Humanities Data Service, 2003.

Inwood, K.E., and Jim Irwin “Canadian Regional Commodity Income Differentials at Confederation” pp. 93-120 in Kris Inwood, ed. Farm Factory and Fortune: New Studies in the Economic History of the Maritime Provinces. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1993.

Knowles, Anne Kelly, ed. Social Science History 24:3 (2000).

This is a special issue titled: Historical GIS: The Spatial Turn in Social Science History. A few of the more useful articles to rural historians include:
Knowles, Anne Kelly. “Introduction.”
Gregory, Ian. “Longitudinal Analysis of Age- and Gender-Specific Migration Patterns in England and Wales: A GIS-Based Approach.”
Healey, Richard G., and Trem R. Stamp. “Historical GIS as a Foundation for the Analysis of Regional Economic Growth: Theoretical, Methodological, and Practical Issues.”
Skinner, G. William, Mark Henderson, and Jianhua Yuan. “China’s Fertility Transition through Regional Space: Using GIS and Census Data for a Spatial Analysis of Historical Demography.”

Knowles, Anne Kelly, ed. Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press, 2002; see especially the essays by Geoff Cunfer, and Alastair W. Pearson and Peter Collier, chapters 7 and 8 respectively, which deal specifically with rural themes.

Pearson, A.W., and P. Collier. “The Integration and Analysis of Historical and Environmental Data Using a Geographical Information System: Landownership and Agricultural Productivity in Pembrokeshire c. 1850.” Agricultural History Review 46 (1998): 162-76.

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