Learning Empire
Learning Empire

Author: Erik Grimmer-Solem

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-09-26

Total Pages: 669

ISBN-13: 1108483828

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The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s. Learning Empire looks at German worldwide entanglements to recast how we interpret German imperialism, the origins of the First World War, and the rise of Nazism.

My Early Life
My Early Life

Author: Winston Churchill

Publisher: Leo Cooper Books

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 9780850522570

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This memoir was first published in 1930 and describes the author's school days, his time in the Army, his experiences as a war correspondent and his first years as a member of Parliament.

Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain

Author: I. Cawood

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2016-02-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781137528841

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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.