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Water management in the English landscape : field, marsh and meadow / edited by Hadrian Cook and Tom Williamson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : illustrations, fscsims., mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585122849
  • 9780585122847
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Water management in the English landscape.DDC classification:
  • 628.13
LOC classification:
  • S494.5.W3+ (lccopycat)
Other classification:
  • TV213
Online resources:
Contents:
Contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 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 countries -- 13. Inappropiate 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-265) and index.

Contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 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 countries -- 13. Inappropiate 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.

Print version record.

English.

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