Farming the North Sea Coast, 900-2000 - Managing Water, Reclaiming the Land

"A brilliant and provocative synthesis of a thousand years of coastal farming." Tim Soens, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Glossary
Introduction

1. The Great Reclamation: Transformation of the Wetlands, c. 900 - 1300
2. Pioneering in the Wetlands: Water Management and Agriculture, c. 1100 - 1300
3. Sinking Land and Disastrous Floods: Water Management, c. 1300 - 1550
4. Surviving in Times of Adversity: Agriculture in the Late Middle Ages, c. 1300 - 1550
5. The Second Reclamation: Urban Capital in the Countryside, c. 1500 - 1700
6. Risen from the Waves: Agriculture after the Second Reclamation, c. 1550 - 1700
7. State and Steam: Water Management, c. 1700 - 1880
8. The Apogee of Lowland Farming, c. 1700 - 1880
9. Nature Tamed? Water Management, c. 1880-1980
10. The Indian Summer of Lowland Farming, c. 1880-1980

Conclusion
Epilogue: the North Sea Lowlands after 1980
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Piet van Cruyningen

Product details

• Authors: Piet van Cruyningen
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9781837652624
• ISBN: 978-1-83765-262-4
• No. of pages: 362
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 685 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages