Water Management in the English Landscape : : Field, Marsh and Meadow / / Tom Williamson, 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...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©1999
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations used in references in text
  • 1. Introduction: landscape, environment and history
  • 2. Soil and water management: principles and purposes
  • 3. The drainage of arable land in medieval England
  • 4. Post-medieval field drainage
  • 5. Arable land drainage in the nineteenth century
  • 6. Wetland soils
  • 7. Hydrological management in reclaimed wetlands
  • 8. Romano-British reclamation of coastal wetlands
  • 9. Medieval reclamation of marsh and fen
  • 10. Post-medieval drainage of marsh and fen
  • 11. Water meadows: their form, operation and plant ecology
  • 12. The development of water meadows in the southern counties
  • 13. Inappropriate technology? The history of 'floating , in the North and East of England
  • 14. Historical changes in the nature conservation interest of the Fens of Cambridgeshire
  • 15. Water management systems: drainage and conservation
  • References
  • Index