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The Danish Revolution, 15001800 An Ecohistorical Interpretation (Studies in Environment and History) Hardcover - 1994

by Thorkild Kjærgaard


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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 nonsustainable fashion. By the eighteenth century, Denmark, along with other European countries, found itself in an ecological crisis: clear felling of forests, sand drift, floods, inadequate soil fertilization and cattle disease. This book explains how the crisis was overcome, and is the first attempt to understand early modern Europe from a consistently ecological viewpoint.

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The kingdom that Christian IV took over in 1588 was in excellent condition.

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This book tells the story of how a fertile European country, as a result of overpopulation and military armament, overexploited its fields and forests in a nonsustainable fashion. By the eighteenth century Denmark, along with other European countries, found itself in an ecological crisis caused by clear felling of forests, sand drift, floods, inadequate soil fertilization, and cattle disease. The 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 development had wide, unexpected consequences for the landscape, patterns of disease, politics, social structure, art, and literature. The book outlines the background of the present-day ecological crisis, both in the industrial world and in developing countries, and is the first attempt to understand early modern Europe from a consistently ecological viewpoint.

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  • Title The Danish Revolution, 15001800 An Ecohistorical Interpretation (Studies in Environment and History)
  • Author Thorkild Kjærgaard
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 332
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date November 25, 1994
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
  • ISBN 9780521442671
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 16th Century
    • Chronological Period: 17th Century
    • Cultural Region: Scandinavian
    • Topical: Ecology
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