Water Management in the English Landscape: Field, Marsh and Meadow

by Tom Williamson and Hadrian Cook

This book represents a major step towards a truly holistic landscape history. It takes as its theme the management of water in the agricultural landscape and brings together approaches of scientists on the one side and economic historians and archaeologists on the other. In each of the main sections an ecologist, soil scientist or hydrologist begins by setting out the scientific dynamics of each system. The archaeologists and historians then reassess...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853312061
• ISBN13: 9781853312069
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"