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James Boyce: Imperial Mud (2021, Icon Books, Limited) 4 stars

estuaries as sites of abundance, resilience, and resistance

4 stars

Has more than I care about the English Civil War, but the thesis is strong: the productive marsh fens supported an independent and insurgent indigenous population until commons enclosure and agricultural systematization and a need for wage-dependent labor drove the state to drain and eradicate the communities and ecosystem.