The Geography of Atlantic History

November 4, 2006     

Introduction

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Session I

Anne Kelly Knowles, Middlebury College

GIS and History

Bonnie Burns, GIS Coordinator, Harvard Map Collection

Geospatial Tools and Data

Session II

Karen Kupperman, New York University

Climate

Cole Harris, University of British Columbia, emeritus

The Canadian Atlantic

Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University

The Atlantic Ocean and Its Contemporary Meanings, 1500-1800

Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia

From Maps to Mappings: The Spaces of Early Modern Iberian Cartography