Historical Geographies of Large Infrastructure in the Long Eighteenth Century: the case of water in Britain

van Lieshout, Carry (2024). Historical Geographies of Large Infrastructure in the Long Eighteenth Century: the case of water in Britain. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 58(1) pp. 57–62.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2024.a944062

Abstract

Historical geographers consider large infrastructures through their situatedness in place as well as through their entanglements within wider socio-economic and political structures. This contribution examines the historical geographical approach through eighteenth-century water infrastructures in urban and industrializing Britain. As such it explores the tension between an infrastructure embedded in place and the fluid nature of water, how the everyday interactions of people with water shaped the management of these infrastructures, and how their construction interlinked with wider socio-economic narratives. As prominent drivers of the transformation of place and space, large infrastructures often ended up doing more than their constructors intended.

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