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The wind of change : Harold Macmillan and British decolonization / edited by L.J. Butler, Reader in Imperial History University of East Anglia and Sarah Stockwell, Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Commonwealth History, King's College London.

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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', comp...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Butler, L. J. (Lawrence J.) (Editor), Stockwell, S. E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Subjects:
Macmillan, Harold, > 1894-1986.
Decolonization > Africa.
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa > Administration.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1945-1964.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Sarah Stockwell and 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 Decolonizing Endgame / Martin Shipway
  • 9. The US and Decolonization in Central Africa: 1957-64 / John Kent
  • 10. Resistance to 'Winds of Change': the Emergence of the Unholy Alliance' Between Southern Rhodesia, Portugal and South Africa, 1964-5 / 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 Decolonization / Stephen Howe.

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