Farming the North Sea Coast, 900-2000 : managing water, reclaiming the land /
""The author opens a powerful dialogue between agricultural history on the one hand and environmental history on the other... a brilliant and provocative synthesis of a thousand years of coastal farming."" Tim Soens, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY :
The Boydell Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Boydell studies in rural history.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Glossary
- Introduction
- 1 The Great Reclamation: Transformation of the Wetlands, c. 900-1300
- 2 Pioneering in the Wetlands: Water Management and Agriculture, c. 1100-1300
- 3 Sinking Land and Disastrous Floods: Water Management, c. 1300-1550
- 4 Surviving in Times of Adversity: Agriculture in the Late Middle Ages, c. 1300-1550
- 5 The Second Reclamation: Urban Capital in the Countryside, c. 1500-1700
- 6 Risen from the Waves: Agriculture after the Second Reclamation, c. 1550-1700
- 7 State and Steam: Water Management, c. 1700-1880
- 8 The Apogee of Lowland Farming, c. 1700-1880
- 9 Nature Tamed? Water Management, c. 1880-1980
- 10 The Indian Summer of Lowland Farming, c. 1880-1980
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: The North Sea Lowlands after 1980
- Bibliography
- Index
- Boydell Studies in Rural History