Coates of the Kaipara /

In the course of his political career Gordon Coates (1878-1943) experienced the extremes of popular adulation and contempt. Handsome, young and debonair, with the common touch, he was a successful minister in the early 1920s and seemed full of promise when he became Prime Minister in 1925 on the dea...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hercock, Fay
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 1995.
Temas:
Coates, Gordon, > 1878-1943.
Coates, Gordon, > 1878-1943
Prime ministers > New Zealand > Biography.
Premiers ministres > Nouvelle-Zélande > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
HISTORY > Australia & New Zealand.
Politics and government
Prime ministers
New Zealand > Politics and government.
Nouvelle-Zélande > Politique et gouvernement.
New Zealand
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Map
  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Note
  • Introduction
  • 1. From Hereford to Hukatere
  • 2. Entry into Politics
  • 3. The First World War
  • 4. The New Minister
  • 5. The Last Years of Massey
  • 6. The Public Expect Much of the New Prime Minister
  • 7. Coates's Government Struggles, 1926-27
  • 8. Confidence in Coates Collapses, 1928
  • 9. The Tensions of Opposition, 1928-31
  • 10. Unemployment, Riots and Ottawa
  • 11. The Consequences of Devaluation
  • 12. The Public Have Their Say, 1935
  • 13. Member for Kaipara Again
  • 14. Minister of Armed Forces and War Co-ordination
  • Epilogue: Contemporary Assessments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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