Main entry:

Delano-Smith, Catherine.

Title & Author:

English maps : a history / Catherine Delano-Smith and Roger J.P. Kain.

Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1999.

Description:

xiv, 320 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm.

Series:

The British Library studies in map history ; v. 2

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-312) and index.
Ch. 1. Introduction: Maps for all Seasons -- Ch. 2. A Medieval Flowering -- Looking around for early maps -- Linking up with the Roman past -- Map style -- Map use -- The importance of genre -- English mappaemundi -- Maps of England -- Ch. 3. Mapping Country and County -- Towards regional mapping -- The first survey: small-scale county maps -- A century of re-publishing -- Re-mapping England: large-scale county maps -- Commerce and cartography -- Ch. 4. Mapping Property: Private Land and the State -- Estate maps -- Enclosure maps -- Tithe surveys -- Ch. 5. Maps and Travel -- Maps and mobility -- Written directions -- Charting coastal waters: beginnings -- Land travel: maps for way-planning -- John Ogilby's strip-maps -- Road maps -- Ch. 6. Mapping Towns -- Representing towns -- Types of urban maps -- Ch. 7. The Spirit of Modernity: Maps in Everyday Life -- Mapping the nation: the Ordnance Survey of England and Wales -- Charting coastal waters: the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty -- Maps in modern scientific enquiry: a new genre of thematic maps -- Ch. 8. The Lottery of Map Survival -- What have we lost? -- Map history and book history.

Summary:

"This book is a single introductory volume on the history of English maps. The authors adopt the revisionist perspectives of the new history of cartography, and review a very broad range of maps from different temporal, intellectual and practical contexts, ranging in date from about 700 AD to the beginning of the twentieth century. Their principal objective is to explore the ways in which maps have interacted with society in England's past, to analyse the roles that maps have played and the uses to which they have been put. It is often a story of discontinuity rather than evolution, but the authors recognise many connections across the centuries, at the same time seeking to avoid too insular a view noting the influence of ongoing intellectual and cartographic developments in the rest of Europe."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0802047424
9780802047427

Subject:

Cartography England History.
Cartographie Angleterre Histoire.
Cartography
Maps
Kartografie
Kaarten (geografie)
Cartografen.
England Maps History.
Angleterre Cartes Histoire.
England

Form/genre:

Maps
History
Cartes géographiques.

Added entries:

Kain, R. J. P. (Roger J. P.)
British Library.
British Library studies in map history ; v. 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 207683
Call No.: GA791 .D4 1999
Status: Available