Maps and History in South-West England,9780859893732

Maps and History in South-West England

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ISBN13: 9780859893732
ISBN10: 0859893731
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1991-01-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Exeter Pr
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Summary

This volume of essays considers the practical and political purposes for which maps were used, the symbolic and ideological roles of maps in the history of South-Western England and the ways in which map evidence can be used to recover facts about the past for use in the writing of history. The text is accompanied by 43 pages of maps and illustrations.

Author Biography

Roger Kain is Montefiore Professor of Geography in the University of Exeter, a Fellow of the British Academy and one of its Vice-Presidents. He has been honoured with medals and prizes from The Royal Geographical Society, The Newberry Library Chicago, the Library Association.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
vi
The Contributors viii
Editors' Preface: Maps and History x
The South West in the Eighteenth-Century Re-mapping of England
1(28)
William Ravenhill
An Elizabethan Map of North-West Dorset: Sherborne, Yetminster and Surrounding Manors
29(26)
Katherine Barker
Patronising the Plotters: the Advent of Systematic Estate Mapping
55(18)
Graham Haslam
The Interpretation of Enclosure Maps and Awards
73(16)
John Chapman
The Tithe Surveys of South-West England
89(30)
Roger Kain
Richard Oliver
Jennifer Baker
The Ordnance Survey in South-West England
119(26)
Richard Oliver
Guide to Further Reading 145

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