Author : Andrew Macnair
Release : 2010-08-24
Genre : History
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William Faden and Norfolk's Eighteenth Century Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook William Faden and Norfolk's Eighteenth Century Landscape write by Andrew Macnair. This book was released on 2010-08-24. William Faden and Norfolk's Eighteenth Century Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. William Faden's map of Norfolk, published in 1797, was one of a large number of surveys of English counties produced in the second half of the eighteenth century. This book, with accompanying DVD, presents a new digital version of the map, and explains how this can be interrogated to produce a wealth of new historical information. It discusses the making of the Norfolk map, and Faden's own career, within the wider context of the eighteenth-century "cartographic revolution". It explores what the map, and others like it, can tell us about contemporary social and economic geography. But it also shows how, carefully examined, the map can also inform us about the development of the Norfolk landscape in much more remote periods of time. The book includes a digital version of the map, on DVD. Andrew Macnair is Research Fellow at the School of History in the University of East Anglia; Tom Williamson is Professor of History and Head of the Landscape Group at the University of East Anglia.