Article ID: CBB101429181

The Emergence of Baltic Moorkultur: Visions of Scientific-technological Mastery of Peatlands in the Age of Great Social Change, 1850–1914 (2018)

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This article looks at the imaginaries of progress through technology and new activities by tracing the emergence of Baltic Moorkultur in Estonia and Livonia from the 1850s to the early 1910s. Baltic Moorkultur, a set of modern drainage and peat extraction techniques, has been viewed as part of a modernisation process and evolving visions of future, which touched the identity of Baltic German landowners, scientists and entrepreneurs. General reasons for an impetus for the large-scale reclamation of peatlands were the growth of population, economic liberalisation, growing demand for fuels and the fact that the basis of manorial economy gradually crumbled and led to increasing urge to modernise its source of livelihood. Baltic Moorkultur can be thought as a high-tech response of that time to the exploitation of peatlands. This article explains why it became adopted and how it altered the appraisal of environments that had been perceived as suboptimal.

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Authors & Contributors
Agar, Jon E.
Ridley, Rosalind
Larkin A. Powell
Hüntelmann, Axel C
Rob B. Mitchell
Ward, Jacob
Concepts
Science and culture
Technology and environment, relationship
Environmental history
Sociology
Food industry and trade
Nutrition; dietetics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Early modern
Ancient
Places
Great Britain
Baltic States
Italy
Baltic Sea
United States
Russia
Institutions
United States. Food and Drug Administration
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