Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
This essay explores the designing of the Thames embankments that were built between 1866 and 1874 for the Metropolitan Board of Works. In particular it concentrates on the origins of what might be called "the production of the conditions of production" of the embankments. By looking at the motivation of those advocating embanking as a means of exerting literal and figurative control over the river, and the ways in which society influenced such advocacy and determined its effectiveness, the essay explores modernity's construction of a regulated natural in the context of an analysis that is sensitive to the interweavings of society, politics, and the individual.
Repository Citation
Oliver, Stuart. "Rich Earth below the Sand' and the Origins of the Thames Embankments." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 2, no. 3, 2002, pp. 1–13. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol2/iss3/15