Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England
Author:   Elly Robson Dezateux (Christ Church, Oxford)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   388
Publication Date:   08 January 2026
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Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England


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Author:   Elly Robson Dezateux (Christ Church, Oxford)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.737kg
ISBN:  

9781009678902


ISBN 10:   1009678906
Pages:   388
Publication Date:   08 January 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Assembling environmental politics: an introduction; Part I. Scales of Action: 2. Commoning the fens: wetland politics before improvement; 3. Improving the fens: environmental reform imagined; 4. Governing the fens: consent and coercion; Part II. Making Improvement Material: 5. Space: inscribing improvement; 6. Water: risk and responsibility; 7. Land: the environmental politics of enclosure; Part III. Ripples: 8. The costs of conflict: instabilities and technologies; 9. Levelling the Level: custom, violence and sovereignty; 10. Fen plantation: refugee settlement and unsettled identities; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

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Elly Robson Dezateux is a historian of early modern Britain and the Atlantic world. She is a postdoctoral research fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford and an editor of History Workshop Journal. Her research examines the environmental politics generated by ambitious projects of agricultural improvement and colonial plantation.

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