Farm Life in Denmark
Author: Eugene Cunningham Branson
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 120
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Author: Eugene Cunningham Branson
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eugene Cunningham Branson
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring 1923 and 1924, Branson spent twelve months in Europe studying the country-end of things in Germany, Denmark, and France--not the great cities and industrial areas but the farm people, homes, systems, and practices; the country communities, institutions, and agencies; and the standards of living in the rural regions of these three countries. His book reports on his findings concerning the life and business among the farm populations of these countries. Originally published in 1924. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author: Knud Sorensen
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Published: 2016-06-23
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9781944682132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book of translated Danish poetry, farming is not used as a background for personal drama but as the speaker's central subject. The poet succeeds in defining his central task as the vivid evocation of the repeated seasonal chores that make up the essence of farming life. Never sentimental, and often humorous, the book might be called an earthy celebration of essential ritual; but it is an elegy as well, for the poems also chronicle the pressures that lead to collapse of farming as a vocation, describing the slow shift of a vital farming village into a bedroom community for those who work elsewhere. How the poet manages to maintain his "dream about farming" as a living possibility, to make it part of a stable vision of the possible, without flinching from sober facts and figures, is one of its many impressive achievements. Carl Dennis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of twelve books of poetry including "Practical Gods" and "Another Reason" Knud Sorensen's poems investigate and lament the end of the Danish farmer's way of life, brilliantly capturing its intertwined beauty and sadness.These poems have a universality that speaks to the disappearance of the family farm, not just in Denmark but in America and across the globe.All thanks to Michael Goldman for such vivid translations that allow a new audience to see 'Denmark like a green dream about eternity.' Denton Loving, author of "Crimes Against Birds," editor of drafthorse literary journal Knud Sorensen's formidable literary output bears a vulnerability, an embracing, gentle warmth, and a penetrating apprehension of emotional depth in commonplace events.May his work take flight and find readers around the globe. Dorthe Nors, Danish author of "Karate Chop" ..".Sorensen is one of the best Danish poets.,"br> Martin Gregersen, Kristelig Dagblad "Knud Sorensen has acquired a unique, compassionate and deep insight into the mentality and the psychological shifts among farmers and rural people as a result of the total change in their circumstances over the past 60 - 70 years." Johannes H. Christensen, Jyllands-Posten "No one has, for so many years and in so varied and detailed ways, written about rural life and the radical changes it has undergone, as Knud Sorensen." Erik Svendsen, Jyllands-Posten"
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tomas Björkman
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Published: 2020
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ISBN-13: 9788792240767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank Tate
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Macy Campbell
Publisher: Boston, Ginn
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 504
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thorkild Kjærgaard
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells the story of a fertile European country that, as a result of over population and military armament, over exploited its fields and forests in a non-sustainable fashion. By the eighteenth century Denmark, along with other European countries, found itself in an ecological crisis involving clear felling of forests, sand drift, floods, inadequate soil fertilization and cattle disease. This crisis was overcome by a green biotechnological revolution that changed the whole pattern of agriculture, and by the abandonment of wood as a raw material and source of energy in favour of coal and iron. This book outlines the background of the present-day ecological crisis, both in the industrial world and in developing countries, and attempts to understand early modern Europe from a consistently ecological viewpoint.