An Empire of ‘Growth and Nurture’
Agriculture, Documentary Film, and Development in Britain's Empire Marketing Board, 1926–1933
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12268995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Erickson (0000-0002-0187-694X, Wesleyan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 509-524 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0960-7773 • E-ISSN: 1469-2171 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0960777322000674 |
| OpenAlex | W4308886777 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Writing in the mid-1940s, the British civil servant Sir Stephen Tallents would reflect that the interwar period saw a shift in terms of how ‘thoughtful Britons’ viewed their empire: less in terms of ‘machinery and organisation’ and more in terms of ‘growth and nurture’. This essay interprets Tallents’ remarkable observation in light of the history of an organisation with which his career was closely associated: the Empire Marketing Board (1926–33). By examining together the diverse activities of this organisation, which ranged from funding agricultural, ecological, and economic research to producing documentary films, this essay contextualises the emergence of Tallents’ view of imperial growth and development
Agriculture · Ancient history · Archaeology · Civil servant · Civil servants · Colonialism · Economic history · Empire · Entrepreneurship · Nature versus nurture · Political science · Politics · Servant · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Engineering · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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