Imperial Mud

The Fight for the Fens

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James Boyce: Imperial Mud (2020, Icon Books, Limited)

256 pages

English language

Published June 28, 2020 by Icon Books, Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-78578-650-1
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OCLC Number:
1128195907

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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.