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"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
"...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
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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 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
"...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
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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. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
villeinage work, tonder hartkorn, cultivated clover, fallow clover, movable fences, sand drift, permanent fences, manorial dues, main farm, wild clover, ecological revolution, stall feeding, water furrows, lyme grass, landowner class, village autonomy, clover seed, ecological recovery,
The kingdom that Christian IV took over in 1588 was in excellent condition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
villeinage work, tonder hartkorn, cultivated clover, fallow clover, movable fences, sand drift, permanent fences, manorial dues, main farm, wild clover, ecological revolution, stall feeding, water furrows, lyme grass, landowner class, village autonomy, clover seed, ecological recovery,