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Imperial Mud: The Fight For The Fens

by James Boyce

2021-01-08 08:33:51

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A post-colonial history of the drainage of the Fens of Eastern England, from a highly acclaimed author.A pre-existing population of proud indigenous people are forced out of their homelands. Then they are materially, culturally and spiritually disenf... Read more
A post-colonial history of the drainage of the Fens of Eastern England, from a highly acclaimed author.A pre-existing population of proud indigenous people are forced out of their homelands. Then they are materially, culturally and spiritually disenfranchised by a financially mighty imperial state. Their impoverishment is justified to them, and to the outside world, as being necessary for progress''. All of this takes place in East Anglia, an often forgotten area of eastern England. An innovative new take on the drainage of the Fens, framed in the language of colonialism, Imperial Mud upends the classical narrative of this being a triumph of technology over nature. The final destruction of England''s last lowland wilderness and the dispossession of its custodians was not a consequence of progress'', but of the growing power of a centralised and militarised state. Imperial Mud reimagines not just the history of the Fens, but the history (and identity) of the English people. And in reimagining the past, it invents a new future. Less

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File size7.77 X 5.47 X 1.04 in
PublisherIcon Books
Publication date October 23, 2020
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781785786501
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James Boyce
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James Boyce is the multiple award–winning author of 1835 and Van Diemen's Land. He has a PhD from the University of Tasmania, where he is an honorary research associate of the School of Geograph...

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