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Author Coupland, Philip M., 1966- author.

Title Farming, fascism and ecology : a life of Jorian Jenks / Philip M. Coupland
Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Series Routledge studies in fascism and the far right
Fascism & the far right series
Routledge studies in fascism and the far right.
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
Subject Jenks, Jorian E. F., 1899-1963.
SUBJECT Jenks, Jorian E. F., 1899-1963. fast (OCoLC)fst01944694
Subject British Union of Fascists -- History
Soil Association -- History
SUBJECT British Union of Fascists. fast (OCoLC)fst00513116
Soil Association. fast (OCoLC)fst00522390
Subject Fascism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Fascists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Environmentalists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Organic farming -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
Environmentalists.
Fascism.
Fascists.
Organic farming.
Politics and government.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1910-1936. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056918
Subject Great Britain.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 131730022X
9781317300229
9781315648170
1315648172