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The Draining of the Fens : Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (415 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421422015
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Draining of the FensDDC classification:
  • 942.6
LOC classification:
  • DA670.F33 A79 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Introduction. The Unrecovered Country: Draining the Land, Building the State -- Part I. Popular Politics, Crown Authority, and the Rise of the Projector -- 1. Land and Life in the Pre-drainage Fens -- 2. State Building in the Fens, 1570-1607 -- 3. The Crisis of Local Governance, 1609-1616 -- 4. The Struggle to Forge Consensus, 1617-1621 -- Part II. Drainage Projects, Violent Resistance, and State Building -- 5. Draining the Hatfield Level, 1625-1636 -- 6. The First Great Level Drainage, 1630-1642 -- 7. Riot, Civil War, and Popular Politics in the Hatfield Level, 1640-1656 -- 8. The Second Great Level Drainage, 1649-1656 -- Epilogue. The Once and Future Fens: Unintended Consequences in an Artificial Landscape -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: This is compelling reading for British historians, environmental scholars, historians of technology, and anyone interested in state formation in early modern Europe.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Introduction. The Unrecovered Country: Draining the Land, Building the State -- Part I. Popular Politics, Crown Authority, and the Rise of the Projector -- 1. Land and Life in the Pre-drainage Fens -- 2. State Building in the Fens, 1570-1607 -- 3. The Crisis of Local Governance, 1609-1616 -- 4. The Struggle to Forge Consensus, 1617-1621 -- Part II. Drainage Projects, Violent Resistance, and State Building -- 5. Draining the Hatfield Level, 1625-1636 -- 6. The First Great Level Drainage, 1630-1642 -- 7. Riot, Civil War, and Popular Politics in the Hatfield Level, 1640-1656 -- 8. The Second Great Level Drainage, 1649-1656 -- Epilogue. The Once and Future Fens: Unintended Consequences in an Artificial Landscape -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

This is compelling reading for British historians, environmental scholars, historians of technology, and anyone interested in state formation in early modern Europe.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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