Date: 29 April 2003
Time: 12.15-14.00
Venue: Room 1, University of Southern Denmark, Niels Bohrsvej 9,
6700 Esbjerg
Head of Mariners: Poul Holm,
Programme
Poul Holm, Director of Centre for Maritime and Regional Studies.
Underdevelopment is an idea that stands for a failure to develop an economy and a society. Normally it is used in terms of a modern society, but the idea is useful for understanding the past as well. West Jutland in the Renaissance was a relatively prosperous, international orientated and wealthy society. But around 1700 West Jytland is best characterized by depopulation, loss of view for the foreign and inferiority to foreign merchants, particularly the Dutch and German. How do we explain this? And how long did the misery last? After 1814 the situation changed. War and government intervention played a central role, but also great changes in the West European trade, was part of the conditions for a new development of West Jytland.
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