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The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales 1595-1918
Roger J. P. Kain
John Chapman
Richard R. Oliver
其他書名
A Cartographic Analysis and Electronic Catalogue
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2004-07
主題
Business & Economics / Economic History
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Historical Geography
History / Social History
Law / Real Estate
Reference / Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps
Science / Earth Sciences / Geography
Travel / Maps & Road Atlases
ISBN
052182771X
9780521827713
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EBR36hOSTfUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
This book offers the first comprehensive study of the enclosure mapping of England and Wales. Enclosure maps are fundamental sources of evidence in many types of historical inquiries. Although modern historians tend to view these large-scale maps essentially as sources of data on past economies and societies, this book argues that enclosure maps had a much more active role at the time they were compiled. Seen from this perspective of their contemporary society, enclosure maps are not simply antiquarian curiosities, cultural artefacts, or useful sources for historians but instruments of land reorganisation and control which both reflected and consolidated the power of those who commissioned them. The book is accompanied by a fully searchable, descriptive and analytical web catalogue of all parliamentary and non-parliamentary enclosure maps extant in public archives and libraries and offers an essential research tool for economic, social and local historians and for geographers, lawyers and planners.