The Danish revolution, 1500-1800 : an ecohistorical interpretation

Thorkild Kjærgaard ; translated by David Hohnen

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.

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[目次]

  • 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.

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書名 The Danish revolution, 1500-1800 : an ecohistorical interpretation
著作者等 Hohnen, David
Kjærgaard, Thorkild
Crosby Alfred W.
Worster Donald
Kjaergaard Thorkild
書名別名 Danske revolution, 1500-1800
シリーズ名 Studies in environment and history
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 1994
ページ数 xii, 314 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0521442672
NCID BA24033223
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言語 英語
原文言語 デンマーク語
出版国 イギリス
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