Joseph Chamberlain
Author | : Alexander Mackintosh |
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Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Alexander Mackintosh |
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Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Peter T. Marsh |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300058017 |
Biografie van de Engelse politicus (1836-1914)
Author | : Julian Amery |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Britiffe Constable Skottowe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Reekes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2017-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 190503637X |
Two famous and powerful men of the late Victorian and early Edwardian era, Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) and George Cadbury (1839-1922), towered over one of the great cities of the British Empire - Birmingham. Together, they offer a fascinating window into the rapidly changing world in which they lived and the preoccupations of their generation. Throughout their lives both men pursued a common mission - to improve the lives of their fellow citizens - and zealously pursued a philosophy of social and civic responsibility rooted in nonconformist religion. However, these were very different characters sharing a single stage. Having aggressively built a fortune in engineering as a young man, Chamberlain entered civic politics and, during three terms as mayor, he made Birmingham the global model of good civic governance. But his ambitions stretched beyond Birmingham to Westminster where he became the first great middle-class statesman of modern Britain and the leading Radical of the age although his career ended in failure and he never achieved the highest office he craved. Throughout this tubulent career, Birmingham, sometimes referred to as his "Duchy", remained Chamberlain's political base and his family home. It was here after an incapacitating stroke, Chamberlain was buried following a funeral where the size of the crowds brought the whole city to a halt. It was also here in Birmingham that Cadbury created his fortune and where his programmes for social improvement caught the attention of the world. Taking control of the confectionary business established by his Quaker family, Cadbury built it into one of the first great global brands. The wealth he created allowed Cadbury to introduce far-sighted benefits for his workers including the visionary model village of Bournville which was his response to the jerry-built slum housing of his workforce. Then around the houses, schools and green open spaces of Bournville Cadbury created a distinct community founded on strict adherence to his Quaker values of temperance and industrial discipline. Meanwhile, on the national stage Cadbury successfully campaigned to improve the lives of men and women labouring in sweatshops and worked for the introduction of pioneering social reforms including non-contributory old age pensions. Throughout this time, unlike Chamberlain, he abhorred party politics and his pacifist views brought them into conflict during the Anglo Boer War which Chamberlain championed. By his death, Cadbury was lauded as one of the leading philanthropists of his age. So, both Chamberlain and Cadbury championed political and social reform based on their experiences in Birmingham and subsequently became important figures of British life. Yet for all that they had in common, they were radically different from each other. Their ambitions and their methods for effecting change, took divergent routes and as a result from time-to-time they came into conflict in the arena of national affairs and in Birmingham," where they were reluctant neighbours. Two Titans: One City is the first study to explore, compare and contrast the lives of these two very famous but very different figures, Historian and author, Andrew Reekes uses archives, correspondence and contemporary accounts to reveal the fascinating lives and rivalries of these two important figures of their age.
Author | : James Louis Garvin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1935 |
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Author | : Julian Amery |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1951 |
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Author | : N. Murrell Marris |
Publisher | : London : Hutchinson |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Sir Alexander Mackintosh |
Publisher | : Andesite Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2015-08-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781296834838 |
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Author | : James Louis Garvin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1951 |
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