{"product_id":"the-danish-revolution-1500-1800-an-ecohistorical-interpretation-paperback-9780521030434","title":"The Danish Revolution, 1500–1800; An Ecohistorical Interpretation (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521030434","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Danish Revolution, 1500–1800\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Ecohistorical Interpretation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book tells how Denmark created, and then overcame its sixteenth-century ecological crisis.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThorkild Kjærgaard (Author), David Hohnen (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521030434, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 November 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e332 pages, 7 b\/w illus.  11 maps  1 table\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.518 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...a persuasive case for an ecological interpretation--a conclusion supported by an impressive body of primary evidence, as well as chronological logic.\"   John D. Post, Journal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Denmark, 1500–1750: A Country in an Ecological Crisis: 1. The road to the crisis\u003cbr\u003e 2. The anatomy of the crisis\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Ecological Revolution: 3. The green revolution\u003cbr\u003e 4. The energy and raw materials revolution\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The New Denmark\u003cbr\u003e 5. Landscape\u003cbr\u003e 6. Labour burden and social structure\u003cbr\u003e 7. The disease pattern\u003cbr\u003e 8. Power\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Driving Forces Behind the Danish Revolution, 1500–1800\u003cbr\u003e 9. Agrarian reforms\u003cbr\u003e 10. Technology and communications systems\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Inheritance: 11. The social and political inheritance: individualism and the liberal democratic society\u003cbr\u003e 12. The ecological inheritance\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Sources and bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006216425752,"sku":"9780521030434","price":22.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521030434i_6390da6b-b47f-4696-8d1b-70d8a611c7a4.jpg?v=1694964921","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-danish-revolution-1500-1800-an-ecohistorical-interpretation-paperback-9780521030434","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}