The Danish Revolution, 1500-1800

An Ecohistorical Interpretation

AvThorkild Kj'rgaard

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

This book tells the story of a fertile European country that, as a result of over population and military armament, over exploited its fields and forests in a non-sustainable fashion. By the eighteenth century Denmark, along with other European countries, found itself in an ecological crisis involving clear felling of forests, sand drift, floods, inadequate soil fertilization and cattle disease. This crisis was overcome by a green biotechnological revolution that changed the whole pattern of agriculture, and by the abandonment of wood as a raw material and source of energy in favour of coal and iron. This book outlines the background of the present-day ecological crisis, both in the industrial world and in developing countries, and attempts to understand early modern Europe from a consistently ecological viewpoint.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-11-02
Mått:152 x 230 x 19 mm
Vikt:518 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Environment and History
Antal sidor:332
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521030434
Översättare:David Hohnen

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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Recensioner i media

"The author presents a great number of data to support his theses, and this reviewer is convinced that Kjaergaard is on the right track. It is to be hoped, that scholars outside Denmark will read the book and make it part of a fruitful debate on an ecohistorical interpretation of history. It deserves it." Sixteenth Century Journal

Innehållsförteckning

List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Denmark, 1500–1750: A Country in an Ecological Crisis: 1. The road to the crisis; 2. The anatomy of the crisis; Part II. The Ecological Revolution: 3. The green revolution; 4. The energy and raw materials revolution; Part III. The New Denmark; 5. Landscape; 6. Labour burden and social structure; 7. The disease pattern; 8. Power; Part IV. The Driving Forces Behind the Danish Revolution, 1500–1800; 9. Agrarian reforms; 10. Technology and communications systems; Part V. The Inheritance: 11. The social and political inheritance: individualism and the liberal democratic society; 12. The ecological inheritance; Appendices; Sources and bibliography; Index.