EH Vol.23 (3), August 2017

A Global Comparison of Pre-Modern Institutions for Water Management

Special issue edited by Petra van Dam, Piet van Cruyningen and Milja van Tielhof

EDITORIAL

Editorial Introduction: A Global Comparison of Pre-Modern Institutions for Water Management Petra J.E.M. van Dam, Piet van Cruyningen, Milja van Tielhof

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Conquest and Incorporation: Merging French-Style Central Government Practices with Local Water Management in Seventeenth-Century Maritime Flanders Raphaël Morera

Sharing the Cost of Dike Maintenance in the South-Western Netherlands: Comparing ‘Calamitous Polders’ in Three ‘States’, 1715-1795 Piet van Cruyningen

Cooperation and Private Enterprise in Water Management in Iraq: Continuity and Change between the Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods (Sixth to Tenth Centuries) Michele Campopiano

The Micro-Politics of Water Management in Early Modern England: Regulation and Representation in Commissions of Sewers John Emrys Morgan

Regional Planning in a Decentralised State: How Administrative Practices contributed to Consensus-Building in Sixteenth-Century Holland Milja van Tielhof OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

‘Public Interest’ as a Basis for Early Modern State-Society Interactions: Water Control Projects in Qing China, 1750-1850 Wenkai He OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

BOOK REVIEWS

Carl A. Zimring, Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States Chris Pearson

Ian Jared Miller, The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo Thomas Webb

Cameron Muir, The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress: An Environmental History Agnes Kneitz

SOCIETY PAGES