THE CADASTRAL MAP IN THE SERVICE OF THE STATE by Roger J. P. Kain, Elizabeth Baigent ( 9780226422619 )

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Title:

THE CADASTRAL MAP IN THE SERVICE OF THE STATE
HISTORY OF PROPERTY MAPPING

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Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0226422615

ISBN 13:

9780226422619

Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

1 December, 1992

Edition:

2nd

Pages:

448

Synopsis:

Throughout history the control of land has been the basis of power. Cadastral maps, records of property ownership, played an important role in the rise of modern Europe as tools for the consolidation and extension of land-based national power. The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State, illustrated with 126 maps, traces the development and application of rural property mapping in Europe from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. Beginning with a review of the roots of cadastral mapping in the Roman Empire, the authors concentrate on the use of cadastral maps in the Netherlands, France, England, the Nordic countries, the German lands, the territories of the Austrian Habsburgs, and the European colonies. During the sixteenth century government institutions began to use maps to secure economic and political bases; by the nineteenth century these maps had become tools for aggressive governmental control of land as tax bases, natural resources, and national territories. This work demonstrates how the seemingly neutral science of cartography became a political instrument for national interests.The manuscript of Cadastral Maps in the Service of the State was awarded the Kenneth Nebenzahl Prize in 1991.

Illustrations:

22 maps, 105 halftones

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Imprint:

University of Chicago Press

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Non-returnable

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