ABSTRACT 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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波罗的海 Moorkultur 的出现：1850-1914 年社会大变革时代对泥炭地科学技术掌握的愿景

摘要 本文通过追溯波罗的海 Moorkultur 从 1850 年代到 1910 年代初期在爱沙尼亚和利沃尼亚的出现，着眼于通过技术和新活动取得进步的想象。波罗的海 Moorkultur 是一套现代排水和泥炭提取技术，被视为现代化进程和不断发展的未来愿景的一部分，它触及了波罗的海德国土地所有者、科学家和企业家的身份。推动大规模泥炭地开垦的一般原因是人口增长、经济自由化、对燃料的需求不断增长以及庄园经济的基础逐渐崩溃并导致对其生计来源现代化的渴望日益强烈。波罗的海 Moorkultur 可以被认为是当时对泥炭地开发的高科技反应。