Water Management in the English Landscape: Field, Marsh and Meadow

Hadrian Cook; Tom Williamson

Published by Edinburgh University Press 1999

Water Management in the English Landscape

Field, Marsh and Meadow

Hadrian Cook and Tom Williamson

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780585122847

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About this book

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 an ecologist, soil scientist or hydrologist begins by setting out the scientific dynamics of each system. The archaeologists and historians then reassess the historical evidence for water management since the Roman period. The result is an important reinterpretation of some of the key questions in British landscape development. Throughout the writers investigate the implications of their findings for current conservation practice and for the management of historic landscapes.

First time such a wide range of perspectives have been brought together in one place: historical, archaeological and scientific
Gives considerations for current conservation practice
Will affect management of historic landscapes

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Hadrian Cook and Tom Williamson Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations used in references in text Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. Introduction: landscape, environment and history Hadrian Cook and Tom Williamson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Soil and water management: principles and purposes Hadrian Cook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3. The drainage of arable land in medieval England David Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
4. Post-medieval field drainage Tom Williamson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
5. Arable land drainage in the nineteenth century A. D. M. Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
6. Wetland soils David Dent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
7. Hydrological management in reclaimed wetlands Hadrian Cook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
8. Romano-British reclamation of coastal wetlands Stephen Rippon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
9. Medieval reclamation of marsh and fen Robert Silvester Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
10. Post-medieval drainage of marsh and fen Christopher Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
11. Water meadows: their form, operation and plant ecology Roger Cutting and Ian Cummings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
12. The development of water meadows in the southern counties Joseph Bettey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
13. Inappropriate technology? The history of 'floating , in the North and East of England Susanna Wade Martins and Tom Williamson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
14. Historical changes in the nature conservation interest of the Fens of Cambridgeshire Christopher Newbold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
15. Water management systems: drainage and conservation John Sheail Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Environmental Studies

eBook

Published: February 7, 2022
ISBN: 9780585122847