School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts

This atlas presents a comprehensive cartographic reconstruction of the historical geography of Kham (Eastern Tibet) around 1950, immediately prior to the major political, social, and institutional transformations that followed the incorporation of Tibet into the People's Republic of China. Drawing upon a geospatial database of more than 1,500 Buddhist monasteries, temples, hermitages, and Bonpo religious establishments, the atlas maps the distribution of religious institutions, sectarian affiliations, language regions, trade routes, monastic urban systems, and regional interaction networks across eastern Tibet. The atlas accompanies a broader research project examining the role of monasteries as the principal urban, economic, and organizational institutions of Tibetan society. Using historical GIS methods, terrain-adjusted spatial modeling, and reconstructed monastic population estimates, it visualizes the regional systems and sub-systems that structured social, economic, and religious life across Kham. The maps presented here illustrate patterns of monastic aggregation, core-periphery organization, long-distance exchange, and regional integration that are often difficult to perceive through textual sources or local case studies alone. Designed as an open-access scholarly resource, the atlas serves as a cartographic companion to the Tibetan Monastic Ritual Economy Model Database. It provides researchers, students, and the general public with a systematic visual framework for exploring the religious landscapes, regional systems, and historical development of eastern Tibet.

A Primer of Regional Systems Theory and Methods for the Study of Historical Economies, Societies and Polities, and their Integration into the Modern World System. Example of Urban Systems in 19th Century China.

A Primer of Regional Systems Theory and Methods for the Study of Historical Economies, Societies and Polities, and their Integration into the Modern World System. Example of Cities in relation to Navigable Waterways in 19th Century France.

A Primer of Regional Systems Theory and Methods for the Study of Historical Economies, Societies and Polities, and their Integration into the Modern World System. Presents a methodology for mapping and comparing 19th Century Urban Population Densities between China and France.

A Primer of Regional Systems Theory and Methods for the Study of Historical Economies, Societies and Polities, and their Integration into the Modern World System. Example of France in the 19th century.

Maps only from "A Historical Atlas of Tibet". I retained the publishing rights to the maps I made for my historical atlas of Tibet, and here I am making them freely available to all.