Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Figure 1 The Danish States: Denmark, Norway, and Schleswig-Holstein in the eighteenth century
- Preface
- Figure 2 Denmark in the eighteenth century
- The Danish Revolution 1500–1800
- Introduction
- Part I Denmark, 1500–1750: A Country in an Ecological Crisis
- Part II The Ecological Revolution
- Part III The New Denmark
- Part IV The Driving Forces behind the Danish Revolution, 1500–1800
- Part V The Inheritance
- Appendix 1 Currency, Weights, and Measures
- Appendix 2 Reigns of Danish Kings and Queens
- Sources and Bibliography
- Index
Part V - The Inheritance
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Figure 1 The Danish States: Denmark, Norway, and Schleswig-Holstein in the eighteenth century
- Preface
- Figure 2 Denmark in the eighteenth century
- The Danish Revolution 1500–1800
- Introduction
- Part I Denmark, 1500–1750: A Country in an Ecological Crisis
- Part II The Ecological Revolution
- Part III The New Denmark
- Part IV The Driving Forces behind the Danish Revolution, 1500–1800
- Part V The Inheritance
- Appendix 1 Currency, Weights, and Measures
- Appendix 2 Reigns of Danish Kings and Queens
- Sources and Bibliography
- Index
Summary
L'aristocratie fait de tous les citoyens une longue chaine qui remonte du paysan au roi; la democratic brise la chaine et met chaque anneau a part. Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
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- The Danish Revolution, 1500–1800An Ecohistorical Interpretation, pp. 259 - 260Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994