The draining of the Fens : projectors, popular politics, and state building in early modern England

The draining of the Fens : projectors, popular politics, and state building in early modern England / Eric H. Ash.

"This book is a political, social, and environmental history of the many attempts to drain the Fens of eastern England during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, both the early failures and the eventual successes. Fen drainage projects were supposed to transform hundreds of thousands...

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Main Author: Ash, Eric H., 1972- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Series:Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.
Subjects:
1500-1699
Drainage > England > Fens, The > History.
Reclamation of land > England > Fens, The > History.
Political development > Social aspects > England > History.
Government, Resistance to > England > History.
SCIENCE > History.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > History.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
Drainage
Ecology
Government, Resistance to
Politics and government
Reclamation of land
Dränung
Fens, The (England) > History > 16th century.
Fens, The (England) > History > 17th century.
Fens, The (England) > Environmental conditions.
Fens, The (England) > Politics and government.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1558-1603.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1603-1649.
England
England > The Fens
Great Britain
Fens
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Unrecovered Country : Draining the Land, Building the State
  • Part I. Popular Politics, Crown Authority, and the Rise of the Projector
  • Land and Life in the Pre-Drainage Fens
  • State Building in the Fens, 1570-1607
  • The Crisis of Local Governance, 1609-1616
  • The Struggle to Forge Consensus, 1617-1621
  • Part II. Drainage Projects, Violent Resistance, and State Building
  • Draining the Hatfield Level, 1625-1636
  • The First Great Level Drainage, 1630-1642
  • Riot, Civil War, and Popular Politics in the Hatfield Level, 1640-1656
  • The Second Great Level drainage, 1649-1656
  • Epilogue: The Once and Future Fens : Unintended Consequences in an Artificial Landscape
  • Glossary.

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