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Books by Humphrey Southall






Data in Society
Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation
by Jeff Evans, Sally Ruane, Humphrey Southall
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2019 by Policy Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-4821-4, ISBN: 1-4473-4821-4

"Data is a social phenomenon. This book examines the ways in which we are constantly engaging with data—consciously and otherwise. The authors analyze the construction and use of statistics by governmental and non-governmental organizations, looking at how statistics are used in social discourse to advance interests and to achieve particular, often political, ends. Data in Society also considers the increasing power of private corporatio ..."






Placing Names
Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (The Spatial Humanities)
by Merrick Lex Berman, Ruth Mostern, Humphrey Southall, Peter Bol, Michael Frank Goodchild, Helen Kerfoot, Ryan Shaw, Raj Singh, Karl Grossner, Krzysztof Janowicz, Carsten Kessler, Rainer Simon, Leif Isaksen, Elton Barker, Johan Ahlfeldt, Marc Wick, Janelle Jenstad, Paul S. Ell, Lorna Hughes, Michael R. Fournier, Youcheol Kim, Byungnam Yoon, Jonghyuk Kim, Hyunjong Kim, Mark Henderson, Karl E. Ryavec, Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi, Pi-Ling Pai, I-Chun Fan, Peter K. Bol
Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2016 by Indiana University Press - Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-02244-8, ISBN: 0-253-02244-4

"Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by that tradition of discursive place-making and by contemporary approaches to digital data management that have revived the gazetteer and guided its ..."






An Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain 1750-1990
Strategic Alliances in Telecommunications and Multimedia
by Andrew Charlesworth, David Gilbert, Adrian Randall, Humphrey Southall, Chris Wrigley
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1996 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-56599-5, ISBN: 0-333-56599-1

"The Atlas seeks to be wider in scope than standard trade union and labour histories, examining the character of protest, both its changing nature and its continuities, and setting the whole armoury of aggressive and defensive tactics available to workers in a wider context of community struggles and developing trade unionism. The role of employers and their associations and the changing stance of the state to the legitimacy of trade uni ..."






An Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain, 1750-1990
by Andrew Charlesworth, David Gilbert, Adrian Randall, Chris Wrigley, Humphrey Southall, Ed Oliver, Jim Phillips
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1996 by Palgrave Md
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-64074-6, ISBN: 0-333-64074-8

"The Atlas seeks to be wider in scope than standard trade union and labour histories, examining the character of protest, both its changing nature and its continuities, and setting the whole armoury of aggressive and defensive tactics available to workers in a wider context of community struggles and developing trade unionism. The role of employers and their associations and the changing stance of the state to the legitimacy of trade uni ..."






The Spatial Humanities
Placing Names : Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers
by Ruth Mostern, Humphrey Southall, Merrick Lex Berman
280 Pages, Published 2016 by Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-02256-1, ISBN: 0-253-02256-8

"Paul Ell and Lorna Hughes describe the long-term project of the Survey of English Place-Names, started in the 1920s and still ongoing, and the DEEP project to construct an online database from the Survey's varied reports. Michael Fournier describes the work of the ... All three chapters in this section concern different parts of East Asia, and all three are based on research with difangzhi, encyclopedic printed gazetteers from the ..."






Toward Spatial Humanities
Historical GIS and Spatial History (The Spatial Humanities)
by Ian N. Gregory, Alistair Geddes, Les Roberts, Thomas Thevenin, Julia Hallam, Andrew Beveridge, Ruth Mostern, Humphrey Southall, Niall A. Cunningham, Robert M. Schwartz, Elijah Meeks, Senior Ian Gregory
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2014 by Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-01180-0, ISBN: 0-253-01180-9

"The application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to issues in history is among the most exciting developments in both digital and spatial humanities. Describing a wide variety of applications, the essays in this volume highlight the methodological and substantive implications of a spatial approach to history. They illustrate how the use of GIS is changing our understanding of the geographies of the past and has become the basis f ..."






An Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain 1750-1990
by David Gilbert, Adrian Randall, Humphrey Southall, Chris Wrigley, Jim Phillips, Gillian Rose, Richard Sheldon, David Walsh, Andrew Charlesworth, Ed Oliver
Hardcover, 225 Pages, Published 1996 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-15889-7, ISBN: 0-312-15889-0

"The Atlas seeks to be wider in scope than standard trade union and labour histories, examining the character of protest, both its changing nature and its continuities, and setting the whole armoury of aggressive and defensive tactics available to workers in a wider context of community struggles and developing trade unionism. The role of employers and their associations and the changing stance of the state to the legitimacy of trade uni ..."






Data in Society(1st Edition)
Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation
by Jeff Evans, Sally Ruane, Jim Ridgway, Humphrey Southall
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2019 by Policy Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4473-4822-1, ISBN: 1-4473-4822-2

"Data is a social phenomenon. This book examines the ways in which we are constantly engaging with data―consciously and otherwise. The authors analyze the construction and use of statistics by governmental and non-governmental organizations, looking at how statistics are used in social discourse to advance interests and to achieve particular, often political, ends. Data in Society also considers the increasing power of private corporatio ..."






Toward Spatial Humanities
Historical GIS and Spatial History (The Spatial Humanities)
by Ian N. Gregory, Alistair Geddes, Thomas Thevenin, Les Roberts, Julia Hallam, Andrew Beveridge, Ruth Mostern, Humphrey Southall, Elijah Meeks, Niall A. Cunningham, Robert M. Schwartz, Senior Ian Gregory
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2014 by Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-01186-2, ISBN: 0-253-01186-8

"The application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to issues in history is among the most exciting developments in both digital and spatial humanities. Describing a wide variety of applications, the essays in this volume highlight the methodological and substantive implications of a spatial approach to history. They illustrate how the use of GIS is changing our understanding of the geographies of the past and has become the basis f ..."

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