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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

Ash, Eric H.

Hardcover

Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryTechnology & EngineeringSports General

ISBN10: 142142200X
ISBN13: 9781421422008
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: May 1 2017
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

How landowners, drainage projectors, and investors worked with the Crown to transform England's waterlogged Fens.

2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

The draining of the Fens in eastern England was one of the largest engineering projects in seventeenth-century Europe. A series of Dutch and English projectors, working over several decades and with the full support of the Crown, transformed hundreds of thousands of acres of putatively barren wetlands into dry, arable farmland. The drainage project was also supposed to reform the sickly, backward fenlanders into civilized, healthy farmers, to the benefit of the entire commonwealth. As projectors reconstructed entire river systems, these new, artificial channels profoundly altered both the landscape and the lives of those who lived on it.

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