Copyright and cartography history, law, and the circulation of geographical knowledge
"This open access book explores the intertwined histories of mapmaking and copyright law in Britain from the early modern period up to World War 1, focusing chiefly on the 18th and 19th centuries. Taking a multidisciplinary approach and making extensive use of the archival record, this is the f...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic
2023.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009763129406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Early encounters : protecting maps and atlases 1400-1700
- Enlightenment mapmaking and lawmaking Part One : the legislation
- Enlightenment mapmaking and lawmaking Part Two : the litigation
- Legal highways and byways : road books in court
- Public surveys, national maps : the rise of the ordnance survey
- Shipwrecks and copyrights : hydrographic information and the UK hydrographic office
- 'A painted sssemblage of facts' : private mapmaking in the nineteenth century
- The twentieth century : for crown and country
- Conclusion.
