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- Bohman, Magnus, 1980-
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The road to modern forestry : dealing with deforestation in nineteenth-century southern Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Agricultural History Review. - : The British Agricultural History Society. - 0002-1490. ; 66:2, s. 199-214
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous research has connected progressive deforestation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with an increase in the demand for timber for building and wood for fuel and a failure to replant. This paper investigates a southern Swedish region during the nineteenth century, where a tendency to deforestation and a low standard of forestry had prevailed for a long time despite restrictions on felling and attempts to promote replanting. We show that a new type of agricultural organization – the Hushållningssällskapet – encouraged the replanting of woodland and the improvement of forestry practice. It supported the enforcement of State policy, but also protected the interests of farmers, not all of whom were persuaded that replanting woodland was a good use of their land. The paper provides new evidence for the state of forestry and the active role of agricultural organizations during a crucial period of agricultural transformation.
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- Lennartsson, Tommy, et al.
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Between nature and society: the interpretation of an early nineteenth-century Swedish farmer’s diary.
- 2015
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Ingår i: Agricultural History Review. - 0002-1490. ; 63, s. 265-285
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Pre-industrial agriculture was largely based on local natural resources, which needed to be handled together with a variety of societal factors. In this study we use an unusually detailed Swedish farming priest's diary to show interactions between ecology and society at the micro-level, and how they influenced the decisions and actions made by the household. The diary is analysed by using the conceptual framework of social-ecological systems (SES). We focus on years in the 1810s, when extreme weather conditions made the weaknesses and potentials of the agrarian system particularly visible through their impact on the production of hay and pasture.
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- Myrdal, Janken, et al.
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Technology, labour, and productivity potential in peasant agriculture : England, c.1000 to 1348
- 2017
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Ingår i: Agricultural History Review. - 0002-1490. ; 65, s. 194-212
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The period between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries was one of rising population and increasing pressure on land and resources. Access to land per person and per household declined as peasant arable holdings were fragmented to make room for this growing population, and an increasing proportion of the population was left reliant on smallholdings from which to earn a living. How so many people were able to live off of so little land is a crucial problem in our understanding of the high and late medieval economy. Through examination of illuminated manuscripts, religious iconography, archaeological findings and written records, we identify a series of agricultural techniques, well suited to the growing number smallholding peasants, and argue that peasants were able to achieve high levels of land productivity through the labour-intensive use of small-scale technologies.
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