The Draining of the Fens: Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England

by Eric H. Ash

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142142200X
• ISBN13: 9781421422008
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"