Settling the office : the Australian Prime Ministership from federation to reconstruction / / Paul Strangio, Paul 't Hart, James Walter

• Autore: Strangio Paul
• Pubblicazione: Melbourne : , : Miegunyah Press Digital, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 pages)
• Disciplina: 994.040922
• Soggetto topico: Prime ministers - Australia - History; Politicians - Australia - History
• Soggetto geografico: Australia Politics and government
• Persona (resp. second.): HartPaul 't; WalterJames <1949->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prime Ministers of Australia: Federation to Reconstruction; Introduction: Inventing the Prime Ministership; Chapter: 1 The Colonial Inheritance; Chapter: 2 Ringmaster of the Early Commonwealth: Alfred Deakin; Chapter: 3 Prime-ministerial Polarities: Andrew Fisher and Billy Hughes; Chapter: 4 Thwarted Ambition: Stanley Bruce and James Scullin; Chapter: 5 Popularity versus Leadership: Joseph Lyons and Robert Menzies; Chapter: 6 A Nation-building Tandem: John Curtin and Ben Chifley; Chapter: 7 Settling the Prime Ministership; Notes; Acknowledgements; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The prime ministership is indisputably the most closely observed and keenly contested office in Australia. How did it grow to become the pivot of national political power? Settling the Office chronicles the development of the prime ministership from its rudimentary early days following Federation through to the powerful, institutionalised prime-ministerial leadership of the postwar era.
• Titolo autorizzato: Settling the office
• ISBN: 9780522868739; 0522868738
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910970236603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II