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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254779303321

Titolo

Joseph Chamberlain : International Statesman, National Leader, Local Icon / / edited by I. Cawood, C. Upton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-52885-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 275 p.)

Disciplina

941.08092

Soggetti

Civilization—History

World politics

Great Britain—History

History, Modern

Social history

Political science

Cultural History

Political History

History of Britain and Ireland

Modern History

Social History

Political Science

Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901

Great Britain Politics and government 1901-1936

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: did Joseph Chamberlain really "make the weather"? / Peter Marsh -- Part I. International statesman -- "Intimately dependent on foreign policy": Joseph Chamberlain and foreign policy / T.G. Otte -- Joseph Chamberlain in South Africa / Jackie Grobler -- "King Joe" and "King Dick": Joseph Chamberlain and Richard Seddon / Tom Brooking -- Part II. National leader -- Chamberlain and Gladstone: an overview of their relationship / Roland Quinault -- Joseph Chamberlain and Leonard Courtney: freely disagreeing radicals? / Eleanor Tench -- "The



people's bread": a social history of Joseph Chamberlain and the tariff reform campaign / Oliver Betts -- Part III. Local icon -- George Dixon and Joseph Chamberlain: friends, rivals and even enemies / James Dixon -- Joseph Chamberlain and the Birmingham Satirical Journals, 1876-1911 / Ian Cawood and Chris Upton -- Birmingham's protestant non-conformity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Andrew Vail -- Conclusion: Joseph Chamberlain: his legacy and reputation / Ian Cawood.

Sommario/riassunto

Winston Churchill described Joseph Chamberlain as 'the man who made the weather' for twenty years in British politics between the 1880s and the 1900s. This volume contains contributions on every aspect of Chamberlain's career, including international and cultural perspectives hitherto ignored by his many biographers. It breaks his career into three aspects: his career as an international statesman, defender of British interests and champion of imperial federation; his role as a national leader, opposing Gladstone's crusade for Irish home rule by forming an alliance with the Conservatives, campaigning for social reform and finally advocating a protectionist economic policy to promote British business; and the aspect for which he is still celebrated in his adopted city, as the provider of sanitation, gas lighting, clean water and cultural achievement for Birmingham – a model of civic regeneration that still inspires modern politicians such as Michael Heseltine, Tristram Hunt and David Willetts.