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This module first provides an overview of urban cartography in Europe from the publication of Braun & Hogenberg’s Town Atlas (1572) through to the state cadastral town surveys of the nineteenth century. Maps representing a selection of important towns in Europe, and (in particular) from Britain and Ireland, are explored within wider scientific, technological, political and cultural contexts. How were maps used in the moulding and marketing of urban identity? The module then takes maps as the starting point and key resource in the study of selected themes in urban history such as defence, religion, trade and governance.
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