Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 246 p.)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1282770934
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9780826445667
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9781282770935
Content:
Stanley Melbourne Bruce was at the centre of Imperial politics for more than two decades from the early 1920s until the end of the Second World War. This new biography presents Bruce as a consistent internationalist. Educated in Melbourne and Cambridge, Bruce, as a businessman, was alive to the importance of international commerce, and particularly Anglo-Australian trade. This lay at the core of his internationalism, which took the form in the 1920s of encouraging the political and economic integration of the British Empire. Bruce's punitive treatment of militant Australian trade unionists and
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Commerce and Conflict, 1883-1917; 2 The Accidental Prime Minister, 1918-1923; 3 Men, Money and Markets, 1923-1924; 4 The Prime Minister Triumphant, 1924-1925; 5 Nation and Empire, 1926-1927; 6 'Over the Top', 1928-1929; 7 Bruce Redux, 1930-1934; 8 'Ambassador-at-Large Par Excellence', 1932-1936; 9 Appeasement and the Bruce Report, 1937-1939; 10 The High Commissioner at War, 1939-1941; 11 The World at War, 1941-1943; 12 Apostle of International Cooperation, 1943-1967; The Bruce Legacy; Notes; Bibliography; Credits for Illustrations; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441152886
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0826445667
Additional Edition:
ISBN 128277090X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826445667
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Stanley Melbourne Bruce : Australian Internationalist
Language:
English
