Rural Images Estate Maps in the Old and New Worlds

Name: Rural Images Estate Maps in the Old and New Worlds
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ISBN: 9780226079905

ISBN-10: 0226079902

ISBN-13: 9780226079905

Edition: 1996

Authors: David Buisseret

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Just when private property materialized as an important social institution, a new kind of map appeared--the estate map. Prepared for private owners rather than national powers, these maps have been a little-studied strain of cadastral mapping until now. Here a group of leading historians--Sarah Bendall, David Buisseret, P. D. A. Harvey, and B. W. Higman--follow the spread of estate maps from their origin in England around 1570 to colonial America, the British Caribbean, and early modern Europe. Generously illustrated with reproductions of rare manuscripts, including 8 color plates, these accounts reveal how estate maps performed vital economic and cultural functions for property owners…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/1/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 191
Size: 8.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.80" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Editor's Note Introduction: Defining the Estate Map




The Estate Map in the Old World David Buisseret



English Estate Maps: Their Early History and Their Use as Historical Evidence




Estate Maps of an English Country: Cambridgeshire, 1600-1836




The Estate Map in the New World




The Making of Jamaican Estate Maps in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries




The Evaluation and Interpretation of Jamaican Estate Maps of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries



Conclusion: The Incidence and Significance of Estate Maps



Bibliography


Index