The wind of change : Harold Macmillan and British decolonization
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The wind of change : Harold Macmillan and British decolonization
(Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series / general editor, A.G. Hopkins)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Harold Macmillan's 'Wind of Change' speech, delivered to the South African parliament in Cape Town at the end of a landmark six-week African tour, presaged the end of the British Empire in Africa. This book, the first to focus on Macmillan's 'Wind of Change', comprises a series of essays by leading historians in the field.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction
- Sarah Stockwell & L. J. Butler 1. Macmillan, Verwoerd, and the 1960 'Wind of Change' Speech
- Saul Dubow 2. Whirlwind, Hurricane, Howling Tempest: the Wind of Change and the British World
- Stuart Ward 3. 'White Man in a Wood Pile': Race and the limits of Macmillan's great 'Wind of Change' in Africa
- J.E. Lewis 4. The Wind of Change as Generational Drama
- Simon Ball 5. Four Straws in the Wind: Metropolitan Anti-Imperialism, January-February 1960
- Nicholas Owen 6. 'Words of Change: the rhetoric of Commonwealth, Common Market, and Cold War, 1961-3'
- Richard Toye 7. A path not taken? British perspectives on French colonial violence after 1945
- Martin Thomas 8. The Winds of Change and the Tides of History: de Gaulle, Macmillan and the Beginnings of the French decolonising Endgame
- Martin Shipway 9. The US and Decolonisation in Central Africa: 1957-1964
- John Kent 10. Resistance to 'Winds of Change': The emergence of the 'unholy alliance' between Southern Rhodesia, Portugal and South Africa 1964-1965
- Sue Onslow 11. The wind that failed to blow: British policy and the end of empire in the Gulf
- Simon C. Smith 12. Crosswinds and Countercurrents: Macmillan's Africa in the 'long view' of decolonisation
- Stephen Howe
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