Abstract
Since the 1970s, Fernand Braudel has urged for the integration of space in historical analysis, pointing towards to what we call nowadays a “Geographically-Integrated History”. For this historian, the creation of a map as an analytical support was necessary to comprehend man′s evolution, in the belief that change happens in a space-temporal frame. Our work is being developed within the research project DynCoopNet (“Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Commercial Networks in the First Global Age”) which goal is to reveal the mechanisms of cooperation among merchants that tied together the self-organizing commercial networks of the First Global Age ((1400–1800) www.dyncoopnet.eu). Focusing on the notion of dynamic, that implies an integration of space and time, our aim is to develop a spatial analysis, highlighting the role of space on network building. This paper intends to present an approach that demonstrates the benefits of carrying on spatio-temporal analysis of historical data sources.
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DynCoopNet is a project approved by the European Science Foundation’ EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research), developed on the scope of TECT (The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading) program. The author wishes to acknowledge the contributions of DynCoopNet project members, namely Amélia Polónia, U. Porto; Ana Sofia Ribeiro, U. Porto; Joaquim Carvalho, U. Coimbra; João Carvalho U. Coimbra; and Monica Wachowicz, U. New Brunswick. For the elaboration of maps thanks to Alexandre Pinto from i-Clio.
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Pinto, S. (2013). Geographic Projections of a 16th Century Trade Network: New Meanings for Historical Research. In: Kriz, K., Cartwright, W., Kinberger, M. (eds) Understanding Different Geographies. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29770-0_15
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