In the mid-1500s, the famed East Anglia “Fens” were not entirely composed of a true “fen”
landscape. In reality, the wide stretch of coastal wetlands was marsh closer to the North Sea; …

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 …

In The Drainage of the Fens, Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern
England, Eric H. Ash shows how during the first half of the seventeenth century the state …

" 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 …

This book studies the evolution and destruction of a part of the English landscape, following
the history of three peasant communities-Landbeach, Waterbeach and Cottenham-on the …

England contains a wetland area known as the fens, which has played a unique role in the
development of its commerce, politics, religion, law, military strategy, and agriculture …

In his 1704 work The Storm, a text that describes the devastation of the extratropical
hurricane that struck southwestern England in November 1703, Daniel Defoe reminds his …

The area to be discussed in this paper consists of about 3o, ooo acres (u, ooo hectares) of
silt fen around Wisbech in North Cambridgeshire, including, as well as Wisbech, the villages …

One of the most famous engineering projects of early modern England was the draining of
the fens, a large area of wetlands located on the east coast of Great Britain largely in the …

Abstract The Roots of the Conflict Between Industrialization and the Environment in Early
Modern English Swamps Eric H. Ash, The Draining of the Fens: Projectors, Popular Politics …