The Early 1730s Shipworm Disaster in Dutch News Media

Koopmans, Joop W.

doi:10.1080/03096564.2016.1159868

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Land Reclamation in the Rhine and Yangzi Deltas: An Explorative Comparison, 1600–1800

Blussé

2018

Fudan J. Hum. Soc. Sci.

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In the early sixteenth century, the deltas of Rhine and Yangzi faced comparable ecological crises, but neither of these riverine societies was deterred by the mounting challenges. They independently developed divergent ways to not only defend against the encroaching water, but also reclaim new land from the water.This paper aims to examine the factors in the making of that transformation in these two riverine societies and to ask how they took different paths, why, and what were the implications of that divergence. In asking these questions, particular attention will be paid to the significance of technological and institutional breakthroughs in the Dutch case, such as highly efficient windmills for pumping water, the mapping of cadastral The original version of this article was revised: The corrected authors' names should read as "Guanmian Xu" and "Leonard Blussé".

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