An Empire of ‘Growth and Nurture’: Agriculture, Documentary Film, and Development in Britain's Empire Marketing Board, 1926–1933
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Writing in the mid-1940s, British civil servant Sir Stephen Tallents would reflect that interwar period saw a shift terms of how ‘thoughtful Britons’ viewed their empire: less ‘machinery and organisation’ more ‘growth nurture’. This essay interprets Tallents’ remarkable observation light history an organisation with which his career was closely associated: Empire Marketing Board (1926–33). By examining together diverse activities this organisation, ranged from funding agricultural, ecological, economic research to producing documentary films, contextualises emergence view imperial growth development.
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عنوان ژورنال: Contemporary European History
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1469-2171', '0960-7773']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960777322000674