Book contents
- Violent Waters
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- Violent Waters
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 Assembling Environmental Politics
- Part I Scales of Action
- Part II Making Improvement Material
- Part III Ripples
- Bibliography
- Index
- Titles in this series
Prologue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2025
Book contents
- Violent Waters
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- Violent Waters
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 Assembling Environmental Politics
- Part I Scales of Action
- Part II Making Improvement Material
- Part III Ripples
- Bibliography
- Index
- Titles in this series
Summary
At the time and since, early modern wetlands have been subject to double vision: told as a tale of degradation and disaster or celebrated as a site of biodiversity and collective access. Violent Waters is a book about the politics of rapid, anthropogenic, environmental change in early modern England: a politics in which narratives about scarcity and abundance, the past and the future, justice and value became vital to struggles over wetlands. During projects of wetland improvement, environments were forged at the intersection between material conflicts over the distribution of resources and risk and political conflicts about flows of power.
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- Violent WatersEnvironmental Politics in Early Modern England, pp. 1 - 5Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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