Peter T. Marsh, Joseph Chamberlain: Entrepreneur in Politics.(Book review)

Nineteenth-Century Prose | September 22, 1995| | Copyright

Peter T. Marsh, Joseph Chamberlain : Entrepreneur in Politics, (Yale UP, 1994), xvii+, 725 pp., $45.00.

As an Oxford undergraduate history tutor, the late Gary Bennett, would challenge the student to find some unifying thread in the career of Joseph Chamberlain. Was it a domestic radicalism, or perhaps a consistent imperialism, or perhaps again, a life-long unionism? Discarding each in turn, he would suggest, finally, "the Birmingham interest" as the key to understanding such a contradictory career. Now, thirty years later, Peter Marsh has provided both chapter and ...

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