The reason why it took so long for social scientists of the nineteenth century to see the impact of visualizing regional variation with choropleth mapping may give us a clue about the question why historians of today are reluctant to embrace GIS.
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Boonstra, O. (2013). The dawn of a golden age? Historical GIS and the history of choropleth mapping in the Netherlands. In History and GIS: Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections (Vol. 9789400750098, pp. 27–38). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5009-8_3
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