The draining of the Fens : projectors, popular politics, and state building in early modern England /

"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...

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Main Author: Ash, Eric H., 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781421422015
1421422018
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central