Research Report—"Mapping Political Economies Over Time: Teaching Regional Systems Theory With G.W. Skinner's Historical GIS Datasets"

Karl E. Ryavec, Mark Henderson
2018 Journal of World-Systems Research  
This study documents an ongoing project compiling and publishing open access Historical GIS manuals, and associated datasets, for teaching the Regional Systems approach to mapping historical world economies to undergraduate and graduate students with no prior knowledge of GIS. Regional Systems Theory was pioneered by the anthropologist G. W. Skinner (lived 1925-2008) to map and measure the effects of economic systems on social and cultural processes over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
doi:10.5195/jwsr.2018.872 fatcat:hqk2ajx65bgdzl6ok5623wgl5y