| 书目名称 | Nigeria and the Death of Liberal England | | 副标题 | Palm Nuts and Prime | | 编辑 | Peter J. Yearwood | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Explores the role of Nigeria-British trade in the political crisis which brought down the Liberal-dominated Asquith coalition and replaced it with the Conservative-dominated Lloyd George coalition.Exp | | 丛书名称 | Britain and the World | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book shows how a stormy parliamentary debate over the sale of German properties in Nigeria on 8 November 1916 began the process which brought down Asquith and made Lloyd George prime minister. The colonial secretary, Bonar Law, who was also leader of the Conservative Party, wanted neutral firms to bid. Usually presented as a policy imposed on him by doctrinaire Liberal free-traders, it was in fact that of the colonial government, which hoped that encouraging foreign competition would prevent the Nigerian export economy becoming controlled by a ring of mainly Liverpool firms. Seeing itself as the defender of Nigerian interests, the Colonial Office endorsed this. The large British companies got up an agitation, which was taken over by Sir Edward Carson, the one significant opposition politician, as part of his attack on supposed German influence in high places. Law counter-attacked by arguing that a supposedly patriotic cause masked the greed of an emergent cartel. He succeeded because smaller British and African firms, trying to break into the now profitable produce export trade, had already painted that picture. By defeating Carson in the debate, Law became again an effective | | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | | 关键词 | Nigeria Debate; Asquith; Lloyd George; Parliament; Nigerian export economy; First World War; Colonial gove | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90566-2 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-08044-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-90566-2Series ISSN 2947-7182 Series E-ISSN 2947-7190 | | issn_series | 2947-7182 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 |
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