Piet van Cruyningen

Farming the North Sea Coast, 900-2000 (eBook, ePUB)

Managing Water, Reclaiming the Land

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805435761
• Artikelnr.: 72808812

Autorenporträt

PIET van CRUYNINGEN is a Senior Researcher in the Economic and Environmental History Group at Wageningen University & Research.

Inhaltsangabe

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