The development of large-scale farming in Denmark, 1525–1744

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Abstract This thesis is a study of central importance of one of the principal questions in Danish economic and social history between the end of the Middle Ages and the great agrarian reforms towards the end of the 18th century. In this period the leading agricultural exports, grain and oxen, were largely associated with large-scale farming. The book is also of general European interest in view of the great extent to which the very diverse economic and social structures of different countries were determined during this period by differences in the incidence of large-scale farming. With its own particular mixture of large-scale farming and ordinary peasant farming, Denmark holds an interesting intermediate position; it would have been desirable for this survey to have been included in the reports to the Etude comparée du grand domaine depuis la fin du Moyen Age, which was one of the subjects of discussion at the First International Conference of Economic History held in Stockholm in August 1960.