Imperial Mud

The Fight for the Fens

English language

Published June 28, 2021 by Icon Books, Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-78578-715-7
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estuaries as sites of abundance, resilience, and resistance

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Has more than I care about the English Civil War, but the thesis is strong: the productive marsh fens supported an independent and insurgent indigenous population until commons enclosure and agricultural systematization and a need for wage-dependent labor drove the state to drain and eradicate the communities and ecosystem.

Subjects

  • Great britain, history