Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A life of Jorian Jenks (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 t
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Manufacturer: Routledge
Release date: 16 September 2016
ISBN-10 : 1138688622 | ISBN-13: 9781138688629
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Release date: 16 September 2016
ISBN-10 : 1138688622 | ISBN-13: 9781138688629