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1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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Routledge studies in fascism and the far right |
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Fascism & the far right series |
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Routledge studies in fascism and the far right.
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| Contents |
1. Roots -- 2. Shoots -- 3. Agricultural education -- 4. Wander-lust -- 5. London interlude -- 6. Superphosphate -- 7. A small legacy -- 8. Devon -- 9. An interesting south-coast farm -- 10. Farming and money -- 11. Another Cobbett -- 12. The land and the people -- 13. Pigs and pen -- 14. A farmer's philosophy -- 15. War -- 16. 18B/2732 -- 17. J.J. Zeal -- 18. The Rural Reconstruction Association -- 19. Church and countryside -- 20. Untouchable -- 21. Through the tunnel -- 22. The organic movement -- 23. A young plant of great promise -- 24. Resurrection of the RRA -- 25. The Soil Association -- 26. From the ground up -- 27. Rural Economy Ltd. -- 28. Feeding the fifty million -- 29. The whole works -- 30. Return |
| Summary |
This is a biography of Jorian Jenks (1899-1963). Althought the son of an eminent academic; Jenks always longed to be a farmer. Lacking the means to do so, he worked as a farm bailiff and then, in New Zealand, as a government agricultural instructor. Finally, a legacy permitted him to come home and become a tenant farmer. Struggling to survive in the economic depression of the 1930s, he became an author and activist for rural reconstruction. Then, having lost faith in the established parties, he joined the British Union of Fascists. Becoming one of the Blackshirts' leading figures, he was imprisoned without trial during the war. On his release, Jenks returned to the struggle, this time in the cause of ecology, becoming a pioneer of today's organic movement and a founder of the Soil Association |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Jenks, Jorian E. F., 1899-1963.
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Jenks, Jorian E. F., 1899-1963 |
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British Union of Fascists -- History
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Soil Association -- History
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British Union of Fascists |
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Soil Association |
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Fascism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Fascists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Environmentalists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Organic farming -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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Environmentalists
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Fascism
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Fascists
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Organic farming
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Politics and government
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1910-1936.
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Great Britain
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
131730022X |
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9781317300229 |
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9781315648170 |
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1315648172 |
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