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Mapping and Charting in Early Modern England and France - Power, Patronage, and Production (Hardcover)
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Mapping and Charting in Early Modern England and France - Power, Patronage, and Production (Hardcover)
Series: Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
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Mapping and Charting for the Lion and the Lily: Map and Atlas
Production in Early Modern England and France is a comparative
study of the production and role of maps, charts, and atlases in
early modern England and France, with a particular focus on Paris,
the cartographic center of production from the late seventeenth
century to the late eighteenth century, and London, which began to
emerge (in the late eighteenth century) to eclipse the once favored
Bourbon center. The themes that carry through the work address the
role of government in map and chart making. In France, in
particular, it is the importance of the centralized government and
its support for geographic works and their makers through a broad
and deep institutional infrastructure. Prior to the late eighteenth
century in England, there was no central controlling agency or
institution for map, chart, or atlas production, and any official
power was imposed through the market rather than through the
establishment of institutions. There was no centralized support for
the cartographic enterprise and any effort by the crown was often
challenged by the power of Parliament which saw little value in
fostering or supporting scholar-geographers or a national survey.
This book begins with an investigation of the imagery of power on
map and atlas frontispieces from the late sixteenth century to the
seventeenth century. In the succeeding chapters the focus moves
from county and regional mapping efforts in England and France to
the "paper wars" over encroachment in their respective colonial
interests. The final study looks at charting efforts and highlights
the role of government support and the commercial trade in the
development of maritime charts not only for the home waters of the
English Channel, but the distant and dangerous seas of the East
Indies.
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