William Skinner Map Collection Online Resource

G. William Skinner Map Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/skinnerweb/





Professor G. William Skinner of the University of Washington was a major
theorist of family systems and of spatial social science. Professor
Skinner's maps are products of his "lifelong interest in the spatial
distribution of social variables." His maps document subjects such as
agrarian China, 19th century France, and Japan.
Some of the variables he was
most interested in included agricultural wages, fertility rates, and the sex
ratio in various regions.

This remarkable digital collection from the
University of Washington Libraries brings together all 1200 maps from the
Skinner Collection. Visitors can browse the maps by country and region,
subject, or theme. The site also includes several documents by Professor
Skinner on his work dealing with hierarchical regional space and a complete
list of all the publications related to this work.