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Encyclopedia > Earthworks (novel)

Earthworks is a 1965 dystopian novel by prolific British science fiction author Brian Aldiss. The setting is a world of environmental catastrophe and extreme socio-economic inequality. Outside crowded cities controlled by a police state, a class of wealthy and powerful "Farmers" exploit a rural prison labor population and hunt down subversive "Travellers" who have broken free of social controls.


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Medieval English urban history - Glossary (8708 words)
novel disseisin, although its emphasis was on quick remedy (no essoins were allowed).
During the wars between Anglo-Saxons and Danes it was particularly applied to centres of population which were protected with defensive earthworks; such of those centres which continued to flourish in later times came to be boroughs.
The term burgus often appears to be used in a technical sense, as distinct from "town" (villata), such as in the 1200 proceedings at Ipswich, usually relating to the town as a legal/administrative entity.
Earthworks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (87 words)
Civil engineering earthworks based on moving massive quantites of soil;
Earthworks, a jazz band led by drummer Bill Bruford.
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