Dealing with drainage
State regulation of drainage projects in theDutchRepublic,France, andEngland during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3516876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Piet Van Cruyningen (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands Wageningen University), P J van Cruyningen (0000-0002-0392-743X, Huygens Institute for History and Culture of the Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 420-440 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ehr.12082 |
| OpenAlex | W2140821937 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 31 |
In the early modern period the viability of large-scale drainage projects implemented by courtiers, officials, or merchants could be endangered by litigation or violent conflicts with landlords, commoners, cities, or water boards whose interests were harmed by the implementation of such projects. A comparison between theDutchRepublic,England, andFrance shows that theDutch had developed institutions to deal with this efficiently. State patents for drainage granted compensation to all parties involved and precluded long drawn-out lawsuits. When large-scale drainage began inEngland andFrance fromc.1600 onwards, these states had no experience with drainage regulation. They had to find their way by trial and error. InEngland this led to lawsuits and riots by commoners that ruined several drainage schemes. The decentralized nature of theDutch state turned out to be an advantage.Dutch politicians and entrepreneurs were used to compromises, and solutions could be adapted to local circumstances. In more centralizedEngland andFrance this was more difficult to achieve. TheDutch also profited from the fact that territorial lords had already abolished common rights of usage in the coastal provinces in the late middle ages, thus removing an important source of conflict
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| Citations per year | 0.55 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |