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"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."

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This excellent commentary on that map, and on the technical and commercial business of county map-making in general, includes a DVD which reproduces Fadens map, allowing its close scrutiny and the printing of sections for private research... Such digitisation helps unlock county maps secrets and encourages their interrogation by ecologists as well as archaeologists and historians.' -- British Archaeology British Archaeology

This excellent commentary on that map, and on the technical and commercial business of county map-making in general, includes a DVD which reproduces Fadens map, allowing its close scrutiny and the printing of sections for private research... Such digitisation helps unlock county maps secrets and encourages their interrogation by ecologists as well as archaeologists and historians.' -- Paul Stamper British Archaeology July/August 2011

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Andrew Macnair is a Research Fellow in the School of History, University of East Anglia. He read Natural Sciences at Queens' College, Cambridge prior to becoming a General Practitioner in rural Norfolk. In retirement he has developed an interest in computer-aided analysis of 18th century East Anglian maps. Tom Williamson is Professor of Landscape History at the University of East Anglia. He has written widely on landscape archaeology, environmental history and the history of landscape design.

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