The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A History of Property MappingUniversity of Chicago Press, 1992 - 423 páginas Throughout history the control of land has been the basis of political power. Cadastral maps - cartographic 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: A History of Properly Mapping, illustrated with 127 maps, traces the development and application of rural property mapping in Europe and European colonies from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. The authors go beyond traditional cartographic research, approaching the maps as political instruments rather than as simple geographical or historical tools. The result is an unprecedented examination of the political and economic forces behind the production of maps and advances in cartography, demonstrating how the seemingly neutral science of cartography became a political instrument for national interests. 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 seventeenth century, governments 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. The culmination of extensive bibliographic and archival research made possible by the authors' considerable linguistic skills, this work draws from source materials in ten languages and spanning five centuries. It will remain thedefinitive source on the subject for years to come. The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State was awarded the 1991 Kenneth Nebenzahl Prize for the best new manuscript in the history of cartography. |
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accurate acres administration Agliate agricultural reform Archives areas assessment Austrian Habsburg Beemster boundaries cadastral maps cadastral survey cartographic chapter Cleve colonies commission commune compiled count of Holland Crown Danish Denmark detailed dike disputes drawn Duchy early eighteenth century enclosure maps England established example farm feudal field figure France French Gävle geometriska Germany granted Gustav II Adolf Habsburg Hessen important individual instructions Jensen Koeman land parcels land survey land tax land taxation landholdings landowners landownership levied Livonia mapped cadaster matrikel military Napoleonic Netherlands nineteenth century nobility Norway Osnabrück owners ownership parish peasants Physiocrats plans plats plots polder polder authorities political produced provinces Prussian record registers revenue revision River scale settlement seventeenth century sixteenth Skåne skyld Source South surveying and mapping surveyors Sweden Swedish tax reform territories tion tithe commissioners tithe map topographical maps townships triangulation village Wales Zandvliet
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