Main entry:

Bendall, A. Sarah.

Title & Author:

Maps, land, and society : a history, with a carto-bibliography of Cambridgeshire estate maps, c1600-1836 / A. Sarah Bendall.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Description:

xxiv, 404 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-379) and index.
Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Art, maps and communication -- 3. Cambridgeshire and its estate maps -- 4. Estate surveyors and their employment -- 5. Estate surveyors: their status, training and techniques -- 6. Landowners and their interest -- 7. Landowners, their estates and uses of maps -- Appendix 1. Estate map description form -- Appendix 2. Carto-bibliography of Cambridgeshire estate maps temp. Elizabeth I-1836 -- Appendix 3. Chronological list of maps.

Summary:

Basing her work on a carto-bibliography of the estate maps of Cambridgeshire (drawn by 1836), Sarah Bendall investigates maps and the ways they reflected and influenced society in early modern Britain.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

052141055X
9780521410557

Subject:

Real property England Cambridgeshire Maps History.
Real property England Cambridgeshire Maps Bibliography.
74.19 geography of Europe.
[Bibliographies].
History of cartography. [Literature].
Manners and customs.
Real property.
Cartografie.
Landgoederen.
Cambridgeshire (England) Social life and customs.
Cambridgeshire.
Cambridgeshire (Angleterre) Mœurs et coutumes.
Cambridgeshire. Estates. [Literature] 1992.
England Cambridgeshire.
England, Cambridgeshire Maps History.
England, Cambridgeshire Land and property.
England, Cambridgeshire Social life and customs.
Maps History.

Form/genre:

Bibliographies (form)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 93293
Call No.: ID PLS GA795.C36.B46; ID:95-B947
Status: Available