The wind of change : Harold Macmillan and British decolonization / edited by Larry Butler, Lecturer in Contemporary British History, University of East Anglia and Sarah Stockwell, Lecturer in Imperial and Commonwealth History, King's College London.
Butler, Larry, 1957-; Stockwell, S. E.
2013
DA566.9.M33 W56 2013
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Title The wind of change : Harold Macmillan and British decolonization / edited by Larry Butler, Lecturer in Contemporary British History, University of East Anglia and Sarah Stockwell, Lecturer in Imperial and Commonwealth History, King's College London.
ISBN 9780230361034 (hardback)
9781137318008 (e-book)
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (292 pages).
Call Number DA566.9.M33 W56 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 325.670941
Summary "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. Contributors reconsider the significance of the speech within the politics of different overseas and British constituencies, including in the wider British World. Some contributors engage directly with the speech itself - its metropolitan political context, production, delivery and reception. Others consider related themes in the historiography of the end of empire. Together they challenge established orthodoxies and offer fresh perspectives that require us to revisit our understanding of the place of the speech, and the policies to which it referred, in the wider history of British decolonization"-- Provided by publisher.
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Stockwell, S. E.
Series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
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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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