英インド総督宛書簡（1926-31年）が示す大英帝国の内情 Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis : Letters from Britain to the Viceroy of India 1926-31

Ball, Stuart

Routledge（2014/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 446 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781409469896
• DDC分類 941.082

Full Description

Whilst serving in the prestigious post of Viceroy of India between 1926 and 1931, Lord Irwin (later the Earl of Halifax) was kept informed about political events in Britain by frequent and lengthy letters from Cabinet Ministers, senior Conservative MPs and other prominent figures, such as the editor of The Times. Covering events from the General Strike of May 1926 to Irwin's negotiation of a pact with Gandhi in March 1931, these private and previously unpublished letters mix analysis and gossip. They offer a frank account from within the highest political circles of the Baldwin government of 1924-29 and the serious crisis in the Conservative Party which followed in 1929-31. There is also much commentary on major figures such as Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill and Ramsay MacDonald. Of great depth and richness, and emanating from experienced and shrewd political insiders, this collection is an essential historical source for British history between the two world wars.

Contents

1. 1926 : the general strike and the coal dispute; 2. 1927 : the Trade Disputes Act and the Prayer Book controversy; 3. 1928 : the de-rating scheme and the liberal revival; 4. 1929 : the general election and the Irwin declaration; 5. 1930 : the Conservative Party crisis and the Round Table Conference; 6. 1931 : the survival of Baldwin and the Irwin-Gandhi pact;