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List of figures; List of tables; 1. GIS and its role in historicalresearch: an introduction; 2. GIS: a framework for representing the Earth'ssurface; 3. Building historical GIS databases; 4. Basic approaches tohandling data in a historical GIS; 5. Using GIS to visualise historical data;6. Time in historical GIS databases; 7. Geographic information retrieval:historical geographic information on the internet and in digital libraries;8. GIS and quantitative spatial analysis; 9. From techniques to knowledge:historical GIS in practice; References.