TY - BOOK AU - Marsh, Peter T. TI - Joseph Chamberlain: entrepreneur in politics SN - 9780300058017 U1 - 941.081MAR PY - 1997/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Chamberlain, Joseph, 1836-1914 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [673]-711) and indexes N2 - This is the first complete, single-volume biography of Joseph Chamberlain, the Birmingham industrialist who by the beginning of the twentieth century had effectively become the "first minister of the British Empire". Marsh dissects Chamberlain's political career, revealing his unconventional approach to Britain's problems before the first World War and highlighting the discontinuities, in particular his shift from Liberal to Conservative and from free trade to protectionist ER -