A land of milk and butter : how elites created the modern Danish dairy industry / Markus Lampe and Paul Sharp.

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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

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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 19th 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 text presents a radical retelling of this story, placing (largely German-speaking) landed elites - rather than the Danish peasantry - at centre stage.

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September 27, 2019

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