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John Norden's the Surveyor's dialogue (1618) /

1409403750

9781409403753

0754641279

9780754641278

b709138

John Norden's the Surveyor's dialogue (1618) /

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edited by Mark Netzloff.

A critical ed.

Burlington, VT :

Ashgate,

©2010.

1 online resource (xxix, 223 pages) :

illustrations.

Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity

Previously published: Printed by T. Snodham, London, 1618.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Text of The Surveyor's Dialogue -- Textual notes.

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"This edition provides the first complete, modern version of John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue. Norden's text, a series of dialogues between a fictional surveyor and several interlocutors--including a tenant farmer, an aristocrat landowner, a manorial officer, and a socially mobile land buyer--is remarkable for its unique commentary on the agrarian roots of English capitalism. In his extensive introduction, Mark Netzloff situates the text in relation to a number of early modern contexts. He discusses the use of dialogue and other literary forms in proto-scientific writing and the role of print in the increasing professionalism of early surveyors. Netzloff also examines the impact of capital formation on agrarian and manorial class relations, discussing topics such as popular protest and revolt, cottagers and the rural poor, regionalism and urbanization, and the transformation of the natural environment through deforestation, enclosure, and the appropriation of commons. Alongside a thorough annotation of technical and historical terms, the edition provides a list of textual variants among early modern versions of the text."--Publisher.

John Norden's the Surveyor's dialogue (1618).

9780754641278

Surveyors dialogue

Agriculture, Early works to 1800.

Surveying, Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

Surveying.

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Surveying.

TEC-- 054000

Norden, John,1548-1625.

Netzloff, Mark.

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