International audienceThis article explores the comparative history of state-driven drainage projects in early modern France and England. Analysing the representation of wetlands, the legal means by which drainage was achieved, and the movements of populations to newly drained areas, it shows that drainage projects embodied a set of colonial practices driven by a mercantilist ideology until the end of the seventeenth century. The experience of resistance and failure led both the French and English monarchies to pursue less top-down and colonial-style drainage projects in the eighteenth century, when their drainage policies diverged. England’s drainage policy became more localised and liberalised earlier, while in France the colonial logic c...
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International audienceThis article explores the comparative history of state-driven drainage project...
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International audienceThis article starts with the opposition to a wind farm project which led to co...
International audienceL'article montre en quoi le domaine congéable, système de faire-valoir et mode...
International audienceThis article takes up the theme of “mountains and conflict” with a review of s...
International audienceThis article explores the comparative history of state-driven drainage project...
International audienceThis article aims to study a relatively overlooked subject: extreme hydrometeo...
International audienceThis article presents the first results of a study on the dynamics of the land...
International audienceThis article examines the notion of acclimatisation focusing on North-American...
Cet article traite du rôle que jouait la Nouvelle-France dans la consolidation de l’autorité maritim...
This article compares marshland colonization in Acadia and France during the 17th century. It begin...
This article explores the place of the natural sciences in the making of the Second British Empire. ...
P. 66-78This article is the result of research into the genesis and evolution of the modern state in...
This article shows that three elements conflated in England from 1650 to 1750: a significant growth ...
National audienceThis article focuses on a document printed in 1820 entitled Rapport au roi sur la n...
International audienceThis article explores Mahé’s interconnected experiences as both a semi-autonom...
International audienceThis article starts with the opposition to a wind farm project which led to co...
International audienceL'article montre en quoi le domaine congéable, système de faire-valoir et mode...
International audienceThis article takes up the theme of “mountains and conflict” with a review of s...