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Rural Images: Estate Maps in the Old and New Worlds Volume 1996
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Rural Images: Estate Maps in the Old and New Worlds Volume 1996 Hardback - 1996

by David Buisseret (Editor)

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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 until the end of the nineteenth century. From plans of plantations in Jamaica and South Carolina to a map of Queens College, Cambridge, handsome examples show that estate maps formed an important part of the historical record of property ownership for both individuals and corporations, and helped owners manage their land and appraise its value. Exhibited in public places for pleasure and as symbols of wealth, they often displayed elaborate cartouches and elegant coats-of-arms.

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The early history of English estate maps is described in chapter 2.

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  • Title Rural Images: Estate Maps in the Old and New Worlds Volume 1996
  • Author David Buisseret (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 191
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Publication date July 1, 1996
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780226079905 / 0226079902
  • Weight 1.59 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 8.5 x 0.72 in (23.50 x 21.59 x 1.83 cm)
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Real property - Maps - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95030609
  • Dewey Decimal Code 912.09

About the author

David Buisseret is Jenkins and Virginia Garrett Professor of History at the University of Texas, Arlington. He is the author of Historic Illinois from the Air and editor of Monarchs, Ministers, and Maps, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/fine. xii, 184 pp, with index, b/w illustrations. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else a fine copy, in fine dust jacket. "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 Carribbean, and early modern Europe, and link them to the social and economic contexts in which they were found."
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