Book ID: CBB768133601

An Empire Transformed: remolding bodies and landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic (2021)

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Kate Luce Mulry (Author)


New York University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Edition Details: Book Series: Early American places
Physical Details: 361
Language: English

When Charles II ascended the English throne in 1660 after two decades of civil war, he was confronted with domestic disarray and a sprawling empire in chaos. His government sought to assert control and affirm the King’s sovereignty by touting his stewardship of both England’s land and the improvement of his subjects’ health. By initiating ambitious projects of environmental engineering, including fen and marshland drainage, forest rehabilitation, urban reconstruction, and garden transplantation schemes, agents of the English Restoration government aimed to transform both places and people in service of establishing order. Merchants, colonial officials, and members of the Royal Society encouraged royal intervention in places deemed unhealthy, unproductive, or poorly managed. Their multiple schemes reflected an enduring belief in the complex relationships between the health of individual bodies, personal and communal character, and the landscapes they inhabited. In this deeply researched work, Kate Mulry highlights a period of innovation during which officials reassessed the purpose of colonies, weighed their benefits and drawbacks, and engineered and instituted a range of activities in relation to subjects’ bodies and material environments. These wide-ranging actions offer insights about how restoration officials envisioned authority within a changing English empire. An Empire Transformed is an interdisciplinary work addressing a series of interlocking issues concerning ideas about the environment, governance, and public health in the early modern English Atlantic empire. (Publisher)

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Review Eric H. Ash (October 2021) Review of "An Empire Transformed: remolding bodies and landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic". Technology and Culture (pp. 1243-1244). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jonathan D. Anzalone
Bivar, Venus
Garnett, Emma
Chen, Kai Jun
De Grandis, Giovanni
Jia Hui Lee
Concepts
Public health
Politics and government
Great Britain, colonies
Environmental policy
Environmental history
Ecology
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
17th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
United States
Adirondack mountains
Adirondack Park (N.Y.)
Atlantic Ocean
Tanzania (Tanganyika, Zanzibar)
Institutions
Alternative for Germany (AfD)
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
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