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  title info:
    title: Nigeria and the death of liberal England
    sub title: palm nuts and prime ministers, 1914-1916
  name:
    name part: Yearwood, Peter J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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 counterattacked 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 party leader, who hoped to reinvigorate the coalition, but instead found himself working with Lloyd George to sideline Asquith. Based on underused sources, and overturning established interpretations, the book situates the debate within the context of the development of the Nigerian economy, the conflicts between the major firms, the role of oils and fats in wartime and the emergence of Nigerian nationalism.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. 1914, Nigeria and the World Economy -- 3. The Impact of War -- 4. Lugard, the Colonial Office and the Politics of Crushing -- 5. The Colonial Office, the Ministry of Munitions, and the Shippers -- 6. "An Agitation Has Been Got up"; the Sale of the German Properties -- 7. "Jingo Pot and Tariff Kettle"; the Nigeria Debate and the Sales -- 8. Conclusion: Epilogues and Consequences -- Appendix -- Biography -- Index.
  note: Peter J. Yearwood.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-284) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
    geographic code: f-nr---
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Nigeria
  subject:
    geographic: Nigeria
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Commerce
    geographic: Nigeria
  subject:
    geographic: Nigeria
    topic: Commerce
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1901-1936
  subject:
    geographic: Nigeria
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: To 1960
  classification: DA47.9.N6 Y43 2018
  classification: 327.4/1066909041
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Britain and the world
  identifier: 3319905651
  identifier: 9783319905655
  identifier: 2018939738
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180402
    record change date: 20190122115801.0
    record identifier: in00004023360
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng