Books+ Search Results
A Land of Milk and Butter : How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry
Author
Title
A Land of Milk and Butter : How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry / Paul Sharp, Markus Lampe.
ISBN
9780226549644
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 online resource (320 p.) : 10 halftones, 29 line drawings, 25 tables
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
How and why does Denmark have one of the richest, most equal, and happiest societies in the world today? Historians have often pointed to developments from the late nineteenth century, when small peasant farmers worked together through agricultural cooperatives, whose exports of butter and bacon rapidly gained a strong foothold on the British market. This book presents a radical retelling of this story, placing (largely German-speaking) landed elites-rather than the Danish peasantry-at center stage. After acquiring estates in Denmark, these elites imported and adapted new practices from outside the kingdom, thus embarking on an ambitious program of agricultural reform and sparking a chain of events that eventually led to the emergence of Denmark's famous peasant cooperatives in 1882. A Land of Milk and Butter presents a new interpretation of the origin of these cooperatives with striking implications for developing countries today.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2018.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 09, 2022
Series
Markets and Governments in Economic History
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Weights and Measures
1. Introduction
2. The Economic and Political Context for Danish Agricultural Development, ca. 1660-1850
3. The Agricultural Reforms, 1750s-1800s
4. The Spread of the Holstein System
5. From Bullshit to Butter: Accounting and Production Decisions
6. Science, Innovation, and the Dissemination of Knowledge
7. How the Danes Discovered Britain
8. Industrial and Trade Policy
9. The Spread of Modern Dairying beyond the Estates: The Rise of the Cooperatives
10. Agriculture, Industry, and Modern Economic Growth in Denmark
11. Lessons from the Danish Agricultural Revolution for Developing Countries
Notes
References
Index
Subjects
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
