The Draining Of The Fens

Author : Eric H. Ash
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142142200X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Draining of the Fens written by Eric H. Ash and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-05-29 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--

Author : H. C. Darby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107402980
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Draining of the Fens written by H. C. Darby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text is ambitious in scope, reflecting the author's position as a historical geographer, and covers a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from geology to socio-economic analysis. Numerous illustrative figures are contained, including maps, diagrams and photographs of the area, and a bibliography is also provided.

Author : James Boyce
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1785786512
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Mud written by James Boyce and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **WINNER OF THE HISTORY AND TRADITION CATEGORY, EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARDS 2020** **LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021** 'A real page-turner ... a warning about what happens when the rich and powerful dress up their avarice as "progress" - a lesson we could do with learning today.' Dixe Wills, BBC Countryfile magazine FROM A MULTI-AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN, AN ARRESTING NEW HISTORY OF THE BATTLE FOR THE FENS. Between the English Civil Wars and the mid-Victorian period, the proud indigenous population of the Fens of eastern England fought to preserve their homeland against an expanding empire. After centuries of resistance, their culture and community were destroyed, along with their wetland home - England's last lowland wilderness. But this was no simple triumph of technology over nature - it was the consequence of a newly centralised and militarised state, which enriched the few while impoverishing the many. In this colourful and evocative history, James Boyce brings to life not only colonial masters such as Oliver Cromwell and the Dukes of Bedford but also the defiant 'Fennish' them- selves and their dangerous and often bloody resistance to the enclosing landowners. We learn of the eels so plentiful they became a kind of medieval currency; the games of 'Fen football' that were often a cover for sabotage of the drainage works; and the destruction of a bountiful ecosystem that had sustained the Fennish for thousands of years and which meant that they did not have to submit in order to survive. Masterfully argued and imbued with a keen sense of place, Imperial Mud reimagines not just the history of the Fens, but the history and identity of the English people.

Author : Esq. Samuel Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens, Called Bedford Level written by Esq. Samuel Wells and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Clifford Darby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Draining of the Fens written by Henry Clifford Darby and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stella Tillyard
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0099526433
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Level written by Stella Tillyard and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ‘magical, haunting’ (Philippa Gregory) novel of a tragic love affair in a threatened world In 1649, Jan Brunt, a Dutchman, arrives in England to work on draining and developing the Great Level, an expanse of marsh in the heart of the fen country. It is here he meets Eliza, whose love overturns his ordered vision and whose act of resistance forces him to see the world differently. Jan flees to the New World, where the spirit of avarice is raging and his skills as an engineer are prized. Then one spring morning a boy delivers a note that prompts him to remember the fens, and confront all that was lost there. ‘The most beautiful historical novel you’ll read all year… Extraordinary’ Simon Schama ‘Richly involving… The story of a strange and passionate relationship’ Guardian ‘If you want to be utterly transported to another time, another place, read The Great Level. A haunting depiction of love and difference’ Amanda Vickery

Author : Daisy Johnson
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 155597967X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fen written by Daisy Johnson and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A singular debut that “marks the emergence of a great, stomping, wall-knocking talent” (Kevin Barry) Daisy Johnson’s Fen, set in the fenlands of England, transmutes the flat, uncanny landscape into a rich, brooding atmosphere. From that territory grow stories that blend folklore and restless invention to turn out something entirely new. Amid the marshy paths of the fens, a teenager might starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl and grow jealous of her friend. A boy might return from the dead in the guise of a fox. Out beyond the confines of realism, the familiar instincts of sex and hunger blend with the shifting, unpredictable wild as the line between human and animal is effaced by myth and metamorphosis. With a fresh and utterly contemporary voice, Johnson lays bare these stories of women testing the limits of their power to create a startling work of fiction.

Author : H. C. Darby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Draining of the Fens written by H. C. Darby and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Meeres
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075099097X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Fens written by Frank Meeres and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, as well as Peterborough City Council, all lay claim to a part of the Fens. Since Roman times, man has increased the land mass in this area by one third of the size. It is the largest plain in the British Isles, covering an area of nearly three-quarters of a million acres and is unique to the UK. The fen people know the area as marsh (land reclaimed from the sea) and fen (land drained from flooding rivers running from the uplands). The Fens are unique in having more miles of navigable waterways than anywhere else in the UK. Mammoth drainage schemes in the seventeenth and eighteenth changed the landscape forever – leading slowly but surely to the area so loved today. Insightful, entertaining and full of rich incident, here is the fascinating story of the Fens.

Author : Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Great Britain and Ireland with Cromwell written by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a biography of Oliver Cromwell.