Oxford : mapping the city

Birlinn Ltd, Edinburgh, first edition, 2016. Cloth, square 4to, 26 cm. xvii, 254 pp, ills (chiefly colour), maps. A fascinating study illustrating and explaining maps of all kinds. Contents: 1568 The city meets the world -- 1578 A 'prodigy' map of a city on the brink of revival -- C.1600 Fish, beer and God in the city's watery west -- 1605 Shakespeare's Oxford -- 1646 Royalist capital and salient -- 1648 The fortress-city that might have been -- 1673 A city expanding, mentally and physically -- 1675 The city as a hub of communication -- 1695 Pasturage and recreation -- 1724 `The Jacobite capital of England' -- 1733 Meandering into modernity -- 1750 The most detailed mapping since Aggas -- 1759 Planning for a French descent on the British Isles -- 1761 John Rocque and the re-mapping of England -- 1762 The first street map of a British town in a tourist guidebook -- 1768 Planning the Oxford Canal -- 1771 John Gwynn and the making of modern Oxford -- 1773 Improvement in full cry -- 1786 Widening the High Street at Carfax -- 1789 A missing link between amateur and professional cartography -- 1805 A constellation of gentlemen's houses -- Note continued: 1807 Mapping an immersive 360-degrce view -- 1819 Enclosure and charity in Littlemore -- 1830 Connecting Iffley -- 1831a Charting the demise of the `rotten boroughs' -- 1831b Jericho rising -- 1832 Gateway to the north -- C.1834 The Physic Garden comes of age -- 1834 The outer limits: Wolvercote and the Duke's Cut -- 1835 Towards a modern city government -- 1837 Announcing the Gothic revival -- 1838 Canal-led industrialisation and convict labour -- 1844 Steaming into the future -- 1848 Inspiring Snow? -- 1850 Oxford in unparalleled detail -- 1853 Funding the Church with colts, acorns and hay -- 1855 The railway tourist cometh -- C. 1862 `Removed to Iffley Rd.': struggling to keep pace with changes on the ground -- 1872 Modern sewers for an ancient city -- and vice versa -- 1876 Housing the military -- 1878 Controlling the student body -- 1883 Dens of iniquity in the cradle of Methodism -- 1893 Accommodating the dead -- Note continued: 1895 Setting the aesthetic pace for the new century -- 1898 Mapping for the consumer society -- 1900 New peaks to climb -- 1902a Time, money and the railways -- 1902b Mapping beneath the earth's surface -- 1909 Money for old rope -- or pearls before swine? -- 1910 A German tourist map of Oxford on the eve of the World War -- 1917 The shock of the old -- 1930 Motor city -- 1950 Oxford takes wing -- 1965 A new system of mapping for aerial spying -- C.1968 Oxford friends -- 1972 Mapping for a Soviet occupation -- 2016 Climate change and the `internet of things'. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper.