Stanley Melbourne Bruce : Australian internationalist / David Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, David, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prime ministers--Australia--Biography.

Prime ministers.

Australia--Politics and government--1901-1945.

Australia.

Bruce of Melbourne, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Viscount, 1883-1967.

Bruce of Melbourne, Stanley Melbourne Bruce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stanley Melbourne Bruce was at the centre of Imperial politics for more than two decades from the early 1920's 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 1920's of encouraging the political and economic integration of the British Empire. Bruce's punitive treatment of militant Australian trade unionists and

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-77093-4

9786612770937

1-4411-5288-1

OCLC:

667292764