Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens by Boyce, James

Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens

A pre-existing population of proud indigenous people are forced out of their homelands. Then they are materially,...
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Author: James Boyce
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Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens by Boyce, James

Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens

$293.00

Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens

$293.00
Author: James Boyce
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: James Boyce
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 10/13/2020
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 4.90w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781785786501

About the Author
James Boyce is a multi-award-winning Australian historian and a research associate at the University of Tasmania. His first book, Van Diemen's Land, was described by Richard Flanagan as 'the most significant colonial history since The Fatal Shore'. 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia was The Age's Book of the Year, while Born Bad: Original Sin and the Making of the Western World was described by The Washington Post as 'an exhilarating work of popular scholarship'.

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