Eric H. Ash is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Wayne State University in Detroit.. His research interest mainly concerns early modern expert cultures. The focuses of his publications lie on England in the 16th and 17th centuries, with a thematic emphasis on.
In this definitive account, historian Eric H. Ash provides a detailed history of this ambitious undertaking. Ash traces the endeavor from the 1570s, when draining the whole of the Fens became an imaginable goal for the Crown, through several failed efforts in the early 1600s.
Eric Ash was born and raised in upstate New York; he has taught at Wayne State since the fall of 2002 and is the current Director of Graduate Studies. His teaching and research interests broadly include the history of Britain and Ireland, early modern Europe (16th and 17th centuries), the history of science & technology, and environmental history.
Eric H. Ash follows the rise of this pivotal new figure, the expert mediator, in the political and intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. Using a series of case studies—copper mining, the rebuilding of Dover harbor in the early 1580s, the introduction of mathematics to navigation, and the creation of navigational manuals—he examines …
10/4/2018 · In The Draining of the Fens, Eric H. Ash writes, “Currents of early modern England’s political, social, economic and environmental history all intersect within the Great Level,” a region of the Fens (24). Indeed they do. There were two deeply opposed ways of looking at the Fens. They might be seen as sophisticated economies that were well …
5/29/2017 · Eric H. Ash brings the perspectives of environmental history and the history of science and technology to bear on the attempts to drain the English fens during the first half of the seventeenth century in a provocative and stimulating account of a major natural and engineering challenge usually examined for the political impact of its various projects on local communities, a subject not …
In this definitive account, historian Eric H. Ash provides a detailed history of this ambitious undertaking. Ash traces the endeavor from the 1570s, when draining the whole of the Fens became an imaginable goal for the Crown, through several failed efforts in the early 1600s.
