0 an official record of the owners of land and of the amount and value of the land they own, used for calculating the amount of tax owed
At the same time cadastres rested on the assumption that all farmers lived as ' economic men ' seeking maximum profits.
By employing cadastre measurement these studies turned agrarian crisis into an established fact.
My research agenda has been influenced by the nature and character of the sources available : censuses, municipal lists and property registers (cadastres).
The collision stemmed largely from the fact that bookkeeping methods associated with a cadastre increasingly came to be seen as a measure of household sufficiency.
In this management of space, new techniques of cartography, land surveying, and cadastre maps increased the availability of and the control over land and soil.
In this way, cadastres offered states a powerful tool for administration and the steady extraction of revenues.
In eliminating the human factor, cadastres promised to create a level playing field for economic competition and regularize state income via the standardization of tax assessment.
Creating a cadastre also presented problems.
