The Danish Revolution, 1500 1800: An Ecohistorical Interpretation

by Thorkild Kjaergaard, Thorkild Kj Rgaard, Thorkild Kjærgaard

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521030439
• ISBN13: 9780521030434
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"