20 British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century – serie
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Salisbury
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
190 kr
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This is a biography of the first Prime Minister of the 20th Century during the height of the British Empire.
Balfour
Av Ewen Green
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
190 kr
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The British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour led an eventual premiership, but will always be remembered for the 'Balfour Declaration', in which he told Lord Rothschild that Britain 'favoured the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish People'.
Campbell-Bannerman
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
153 kr
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Roy Hattersley brings the politician's to this concise history of the life of Henry Campbell-Bannerman, widely considered to be an ineffective Prime Minister; he was in fact the liberal of the 20th century to occupy the post.
Asquith
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
184 kr
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Asquith's administration laid the foundation of Britain's welfare state, but he was plunged into a major power struggle with the House of Lords. The budget of 1909 was vetoed by the hereditary upper chamber, and in 1910 Asquith called and won two elections on this constitutional issue. The Lords …
Lloyd George
Av Hugh Purcell
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
186 kr
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David Lloyd George was Britain’s Prime Minister between 1916 and 1922. By the end of 1916 there was discontent with Herbert Henry Asquith’s management of the war and Lloyd George schemed secretly with the Conservatives in the coalition government to take his place as Prime Minister. The main issue …
Bonar Law
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
157 kr
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Bonar Law was a prominent opponent of Home Rule for Ireland; he also served the shortest term of any of Britain's 20th century Prime Ministers. In 1922 he was responsible for ending the coalition.
Baldwin
Av Anne Perkins
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
184 kr
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Stanley Baldwin's cultivated image of the plain man, Mr Suburbia', helped him cope with two of the greatest domestic political crises of the first half of twentieth century Britain, the General Strike and the Abdication.
Ramsay Macdonald
Av Kevin Morgan
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
186 kr
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In 1929 Labour was for the first time the largest party, but his new government had to grapple with the problems of the Great Depression.
Chamberlain
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
184 kr
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With the agreement at Munich in 1938 he effectively abandoned Czechoslovakia, but immediately accelerated Britain's rearmament programme and the following year declared that Britain would defend Poland. This commitment led, in September 1939, to the start of World War II.
Churchill
Häftad, 2006
131 kr
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When Churchill died, one might have thought that it was not a man who was being borne to his grave, but British history itself - a resplendent, fortunate history whose last illustrious chapter Churchill himself had written almost a quarter of a century before.
Attlee
Av David Howell
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
186 kr
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Famously beating Churchill in the 1945 election, Attlee's post-war government enacted a broad programme of socialist legislation in spite of conditions of austerity in which rationing was actually extended. He also gave independence to India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma.
Macmillan
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
185 kr
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Paradoxically his success with the USA jeopardised his efforts to get Britain into the European Economic Community, for it was one of the reasons why the French President Charles de Gaulle vetoed Britain's application to join in 1963.
Douglas Home
Av David Dutton
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
190 kr
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Douglas-Home had a complex career between the two Houses of Parliament, disclaiming his peerage to become Prime Minister. His term in office was short elected in 1963 he lost the election of 1964.
Wilson
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
190 kr
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Harold Wilson held out the promise of technology and of 'the Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution'. A balance of payment crisis, leading to devaluation in 1967, frustrated the fulfilment of his prime ministerial promises. Meanwhile foreign affairs were dominated …
Heath
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
159 kr
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A passionate European, Edward Heath succeeded in taking Britain into the European Community. He was latter challenged for the leadership of the party by Margaret Thatcher who sidelined him during her period in office.
Callaghan
Av Harry Conroy
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
190 kr
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Callaghan term in office was dominated by industrial unrest, culminating in the Winter of Discontent', laying the foundations for Margaret Thatcher's election victory in 1979
Major
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
148 kr
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John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, but his initial popularity soon faded with the devaluation of the sterling, his achievement at Maastricht which brought division to his party and he oversaw the longest recession since WW2.
Blair
Av Mick Temple
Häftad, 2006
186 kr
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Tony Blair (b. 1953, Prime Minister 1997–2007) was elected as the MP for Sedgefield in 1983, as leader of the Labour Party in 1994, and as Prime Minister in a Labour landslide in 1997. He was the last British Prime Minister of the 20th century and the second longest-serving after Margaret Thatcher. …
20 British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century
Häftad, 2006, 15+ år
1710 kr
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From Lord Salisbury to Tony Blair, the books of this twenty-volume set biographically profile the nineteen men and one woman who served as Prime Minister of Britain during the twentieth century. Each volume contains a chronological narrative that examines the life prior to arrival at 10 Downing …
