Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A life of Jorian Jenks [Paperback]

Prologue

1. Roots

2. Shoots

3. Agricultural Education

4. Wanderlust

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 Farmers 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

Epilogue. Jorian Jenks Legacy: Green and Black

 

Philip Coupland's dedicated and impressive detective work illuminates the controversial life of Jorian Jenks, in that complex area of twentieth-century culture where politics merged with organic farming and economics with religion. This biography is a most valuable contribution to the history of environmentalism in Britain.

Dr. Philip Conford, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester.

Couplands book is both scholarly and fascinating. With a wealth of new archival material, we now at last have an in-depth study of a man central both to pre-war Fascist agriculturall³*