The wind of change : Harold Macmillan and British decolonization /

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Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Description:	ix, 281 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Subject:	Macmillan, Harold, -- 1894-1986. Macmillan, Harold, -- 1894-1986. British colonies. Decolonization. Management. Politics and government Africa -- Decolonization. Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-1964. Africa. Great Britain.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9290727

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Other authors / contributors:	Butler, L. J. (Lawrence J.), editor of compilation. Stockwell, S. E., editor of compilation.
ISBN:	9780230361034 (hardback) 023036103X (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1. Macmillan, Verwoerd and the 1960 'Wind of Change' Speech
2. Whirlwind, Hurricane, Howling Tempest: The Wind of Change and the British World
3. 'White Man in a Wood Pile': Race and the Limits of Macmillan's Great 'Wind of Change' in Africa
4. The Wind of Change as Generational Drama
5. Four Straws in the Wind: Metropolitan Anti-Imperialism, January-February 1960
6. Words of Change: the Rhetoric of Commonwealth, Common Market and Cold War, 1961-3
7. A Path not Taken? British Perspectives on French Colonial Violence after 1945
8. The Wind of Change and, the Tides of History: de Gaulle, Macmillan and the Beginnings of the French Decolonizing Endgame
9. The US and Decolonization in Central Africa, 1957-64
10. Resistance to 'Winds of Change': The Emergence of the 'Unholy Alliance' between Southern Rhodesia, Portugal and South Africa, 1964-5
11. The Wind that Failed to Blow: British Policy and the End of Empire in the Gulf
12. Crosswinds and Countercurrents: Macmillan's Africa in 'Long View' of Decolonization
Index

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