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

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ash, Eric H., 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Colección:Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.