Water Management in the English Landscape : : Field, Marsh and Meadow / / Tom Williamson, Hadrian Cook.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Cook, Hadrian,; Williamson, Tom,
• MitwirkendeR: Bettey, Joseph,; Cook, Hadrian,; Cummings, Ian,; Cutting, Roger,; Dent, David,; Hall, David,; Newbold, Christopher,; Phillips, A. D. M.,; Rippon, Stephen,; Sheail, John,; Silvester, Robert,; Taylor, Christopher,; Wade Martins, Susanna,; Williamson, Tom,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Preface --; Abbreviations used in references in text --; 1. Introduction: landscape, environment and history --; 2. Soil and water management: principles and purposes --; 3. The drainage of arable land in medieval England --; 4. Post-medieval field drainage --; 5. Arable land drainage in the nineteenth century --; 6. Wetland soils --; 7. Hydrological management in reclaimed wetlands --; 8. Romano-British reclamation of coastal wetlands --; 9. Medieval reclamation of marsh and fen --; 10. Post-medieval drainage of marsh and fen --; 11. Water meadows: their form, operation and plant ecology --; 12. The development of water meadows in the southern counties --; 13. Inappropriate technology? The history of 'floating , in the North and East of England --; 14. Historical changes in the nature conservation interest of the Fens of Cambridgeshire --; 15. Water management systems: drainage and conservation --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780585122847; 9783110780475
• DOI: 10.1515/9780585122847
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Tom Williamson, Hadrian Cook.

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 scientificGives considerations for current conservation practiceWill affect management of historic landscapes