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Farming, Fascism and Ecology - A life of Jorian Jenks (Paperback)
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Farming, Fascism and Ecology - A life of Jorian Jenks (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
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The life of Jorian Jenks (1899-1963) has great potential to upset
settled assumptions. Why did a sensitive and intelligent man from a
liberal family become a fascist? How did a Blackshirt go green? The
son of an eminent academic, from his childhood onwards Jenks
instead longed to farm. 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. This book
draws on an extensive range of sources, a large proportion of which
were previously unseen by historians. For the first time, it
portrays the private and public life of this unusual man, revealing
many hitherto un-glimpsed facets of Jenks' life.
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