Radkau repeats Werner Sombart ’ s notion of the pre-industrial phase as a “Wooden Age” , where wood constituted the key substance for fuel energy, construction and machinery. While Sombart was positive about the change to an "iron age", Radkau is critical about the alleged decline of “wooden civilisation” . Before the industrial century, the “wood brake” , as he names it, was a component of stability, of the ecology and the traditional economic and social order. In connection with the first medieval mining rushes regional wood shortages gave rise to the first use of sustainability in German forestry. Further reading Wood: A History. By Joachim Radkau, translated by Patrick Camiller (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2012. viii plus 399 pp.) Swiss Bafu research Project «Holznot» (18th/19th century) Rolf-Jürgen Gleitsmann: Rohstoffmangel und Lösungsstrategien: Das Problem der vorindustriellen Holzknappheit, in: Technologie und Politik 16 (1980), S. 104-154. Joachim Radkau: Technik in Deutschland. Vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute. Frankfurt / New York 2008, . Joachim Radkau: Holzverknappung und Krisenbewußtsein im 18. Jahrhundert, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 9 (1983), S. 513-543.
Radkau repeats Werner Sombart ' s notion of the pre-industrial phase as a "Wooden Age" , where wood constituted the key substance for fuel energy, construction and machinery. While Sombart was positive about the change to an "iron age", Radkau is critical about the alleged decline of "wooden civilisation" . Before the industrial century, the "wood brake" , as he names it, was a component of stability, of the ecology and the traditional economic and social order. In connection with the first medieval mining rushes regional wood shortages gave rise to the first use of sustainability in German forestry. Further reading Wood: A History. By Joachim Radkau, translated by Patrick Camiller (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2012. viii plus 399 pp.) Swiss Bafu research Project «Holznot» (18th/19th century) Rolf-Jürgen Gleitsmann: Rohstoffmangel und Lösungsstrategien: Das Problem der vorindustriellen Holzknappheit, in: Technologie und Politik 16 (1980), S. 104–154. Joachim Radkau: Technik in Deutschland. Vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute. Frankfurt / New York 2008, . Joachim Radkau: Holzverknappung und Krisenbewußtsein im 18. Jahrhundert, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 9 (1983), S. 513–543.
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