Contributions

  • Chapman, John, 1938- - Contributor
  • Oliver, Richard R. - Contributor

Publication

2004 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

Language

English

Word Count

103,750 words, Guess

Page Count

415 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2003048565
  • Goodreads4075606
  • LibraryThing2508408

Classifications

  • DDC912.42
  • LCCGA109.5 .K36 2003

Description

"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 enquiries. 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 catalogue of all the 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

  • Maps
  • Catalogs.
  • Maps.

Other Editions

  • The enclosure maps of England and WalesCambridge University Press2004

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