Oxford: Mapping the City de MacCannell, Daniel - 2016-12-31

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Birlinn Ltd, Edinburgh, first edition, 2016. Cloth, square 4to, 26 cm. xvii, 254 pp, ills (chiefly colour), maps. A fascinating study illustrating and explaining maps of all kinds. Contents: 1568 The city meets the world -- 1578 A 'prodigy' map of a city on the brink of revival -- C.1600 Fish, beer and God in the city's watery west -- 1605 Shakespeare's Oxford -- 1646 Royalist capital and salient -- 1648 The fortress-city that might have been -- 1673 A city expanding, mentally and physically -- 1675 The city as a hub of communication -- 1695 Pasturage and recreation -- 1724 `The Jacobite capital of England' -- 1733 Meandering into modernity -- 1750 The most detailed mapping since Aggas -- 1759 Planning for a French descent on the British Isles -- 1761 John Rocque and the re-mapping of England -- 1762 The first street map of a British town in a tourist guidebook -- 1768 Planning the Oxford Canal -- 1771 John Gwynn and the making of modern Oxford -- 1773 Improvement in full cry --… Leer más

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