The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A History of Property Mapping

by Roger J.P. Kain and Elizabeth Baigent

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226422615
• ISBN13: 9780226422619
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.5" x 9.5"