The Draining of the Fens Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England |
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Author:
| Ash, Eric H. |
Series title: | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4214-2200-8 |
Publication Date: | May 2017 |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $124.00 |
Book Description:
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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 ......
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 ......