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04405aam a2200469 i 4500 001 C1A8EDF4F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 161213t20172017mduab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016028456 020 $a 142142200X 020 $a 9781421422008 035 $a (OCoLC)961408351 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d GZM $d OBE $d TFW $d OCLCA $d COD $d PAU $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d WLU $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a DA670 F33 A79 2017 082 00 $a 942.6 $2 23 084 $a HIS037020 $a HIS015000 $a TEC056000 $a HIS037020 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Ash, Eric H., $d 1972- $e author. 245 14 $a The draining of the Fens : $b projectors, popular politics, and state building in early modern England / $c Eric H. Ash. 264 1 $a Baltimore, Maryland : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xi, 398 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-385) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 2 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Fens, The (England) $x History $y 16th century. 651 0 $a Fens, The (England) $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Drainage $z Fens, The $z Fens, The $x History. 650 0 $a Reclamation of land $z Fens, The $z Fens, The $x History. 651 0 $a Fens, The (England) $x Environmental conditions. 651 0 $a Fens, The (England) $x Politics and government. 650 0 $a Political development $x History. $z England $x History. 650 0 $a Government, Resistance to $z England $x History. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Politics and government $y 1558-1603. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Politics and government $y 1603-1649. 830 0 $a Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190103015212.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C1A8EDF4F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search