00797nam0-22002531i-450-99000120899040332120060220105847.0000120899FED01000120899(Aleph)000120899FED0100012089920001205d1983----km-y0itay50------baengAnalytic functions Blazejewko 1982proceedings of a Conference held in Blazejewko, August 19-27, 1982edited by J. LawrynowiczBerlin [etc.]Springer-Verlag1983Lecture notes in mathematics1039Lawrynowicz,JulianITUNINARICAUNIMARCBK990001208990403321C-20-(10392MA1MA1Analytic functions, Blazejewko 198280030UNINA04999oam 22006974a 450 991079281790332120230616195950.01-4214-2201-8(CKB)3710000001353850(MiAaPQ)EBC4719449(OCoLC)987302262(MdBmJHUP)muse56496(EXLCZ)99371000000135385020161213d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Draining of the FensProjectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England /Eric H. AshBaltimore :Johns Hopkins University Press,2017.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2017©2017.1 online resource (415 pages)Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology1-4214-2200-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: The Unrecovered Country : Draining the Land, Building the State -- Part I. Popular Politics, Crown Authority, and the Rise of the Projector -- Land and Life in the Pre-Drainage Fens -- State Building in the Fens, 1570-1607 -- The Crisis of Local Governance, 1609-1616 -- The Struggle to Forge Consensus, 1617-1621 -- Part II. Drainage Projects, Violent Resistance, and State Building -- Draining the Hatfield Level, 1625-1636 -- The First Great Level Drainage, 1630-1642 -- Riot, Civil War, and Popular Politics in the Hatfield Level, 1640-1656 -- The Second Great Level drainage, 1649-1656 -- Epilogue: The Once and Future Fens : Unintended Consequences in an Artificial Landscape -- Glossary."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"--Provided by publisher.Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.HISTORY / RenaissancebisacshTECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / HistorybisacshHISTORY / Europe / Great BritainbisacshSCIENCE / HistorybisacshGovernment, Resistance toEnglandHistoryPolitical developmentSocial aspectsEnglandHistoryReclamation of landEnglandFens, TheHistoryDrainageEnglandFens, TheHistoryGreat BritainPolitics and government1603-1649Great BritainPolitics and government1558-1603Fens, The (England)Politics and governmentFens, The (England)Environmental conditionsFens, The (England)History17th centuryFens, The (England)History16th centuryHISTORY / Renaissance.TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History.HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.SCIENCE / History.Government, Resistance toHistory.Political developmentSocial aspectsHistory.Reclamation of landHistory.DrainageHistory.942.6SCI034000HIS015000TEC056000HIS037020bisacshAsh Eric H.1972-1562971MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910792817903321The Draining of the Fens3831044UNINA