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Oxford: Mapping the City (Hardcover)
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Oxford: Mapping the City (Hardcover)
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Over the past four and a half centuries, the magnificent city of
Oxford has been mapped for many reasons, few of which have involved
the mere finding of one's way through the streets. Maps were
produced as part of schemes to defend Oxford from rampaging
Roundheads, raging floodwaters, and the ravages of cholera; to plan
the new canals and bridges of the eighteenth century and the new
railways, tramways and suburbs of the nineteenth; to determine and
display changes in the city's political stature under the Reform
Acts of 1832 and 1867; to aid police enforcement of the laws
against homosexuality; and even to plan a Soviet ground assault on
the heart of the British motor industry. Given its status as a
world centre of drama, poetry, literature, music, architecture, and
scientific experimentation, and sometime royal capital, it is
unsurprising that Oxford was the first British town to be included
in map form in a tourist guidebook, as early as 1762, and one of
just two inland towns mapped by French invasion planners in the
Seven Years' War. For the first time, this lavishly illustrated
volume brings together sixty of the most remarkable maps and views
of the area that have been made by friend and foe since 1575.
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