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100 1 Ash, Eric H.,|d1972-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
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245 14 The draining of the Fens :|bprojectors, popular politics,
and state building in early modern England /|cEric H. Ash.
264 1 Baltimore :|bJohns Hopkins University Press,|c2017.
300 1 online resource.
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490 1 Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 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.
520 2 "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 of acres of wetlands into
dry farmland capable of growing grain and other crops, and
also reform the sickly, backward fenland inhabitants into
civilized, healthy farmers, to the benefit of the entire
commonwealth. Fenlanders, however, viewed the drainage as
a grave threat to their local landscape, economy, and way
of life. At issue were two different understandings of the
Fens, what they were and ought to be; the power to define
the Fens in the present was the power to determine their
future destiny. The drainage projects, and the many
conflicts they incited, illustrate the ways in which
politics, economics, and ecological thought intersected at
a time when attitudes toward both the natural environment
and the commonwealth were shifting. Promoted by the crown,
endorsed by agricultural improvement advocates, undertaken
by English and Dutch projectors, and opposed by fenland
commoners, the drainage of the Fens provides a fascinating
locus to study the process of state building in early
modern England, and the violent popular resistance it
sometimes provoked. In exploring the many challenges the
English faced in re-conceiving and re-creating their Fens,
this book addresses important themes of environmental,
political, economic, social, and technological history,
and reveals new dimensions of the evolution of early
modern England into a modern, unitary, capitalist state"--
|cProvided by publisher.
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655 4 Electronic books.
776 08 |iPrint version:|aAsh, Eric H., 1972-|tDraining of the
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