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The Wind of Change

Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization

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  1. L. J. Butler

    1. University of East Anglia, UK

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  2. Sarah Stockwell

    1. King’s College London, UK

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Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Sarah Stockwell, L. J. Butler
    Pages 1-19

  3. Macmillan, Verwoerd and the 1960 ‘Wind of Change’ Speech

    • Saul Dubow
    Pages 20-47

  4. Whirlwind, Hurricane, Howling Tempest: The Wind of Change and the British World

    • Stuart Ward
    Pages 48-69

  5. ‘White Man in a Wood Pile’: Race and the Limits of Macmillan’s Great ‘Wind of Change’ in Africa

    • J. E. Lewis
    Pages 70-95

  6. The Wind of Change as Generational Drama

    • Simon Ball
    Pages 96-115

  7. Four Straws in the Wind: Metropolitan Anti-Imperialism, January–February 1960

    • Nicholas Owen
    Pages 116-139

  8. Words of Change: the Rhetoric of Commonwealth, Common Market and Cold War, 1961–3

    • Richard Toye
    Pages 140-158

  9. A Path not Taken? British Perspectives on French Colonial Violence after 1945

    • Martin Thomas
    Pages 159-179

  10. The Wind of Change and the Tides of History: de Gaulle, Macmillan and the Beginnings of the French Decolonizing Endgame

    • Martin Shipway
    Pages 180-194

  11. The US and Decolonization in Central Africa, 1957–64

    • John Kent
    Pages 195-214

  12. Resistance to ‘Winds of Change’: The Emergence of the ‘Unholy Alliance’ between Southern Rhodesia, Portugal and South Africa, 1964–5

    • Sue Onslow
    Pages 215-234

  13. The Wind that Failed to Blow: British Policy and the End of Empire in the Gulf

    • Simon C. Smith
    Pages 235-251

  14. Crosswinds and Countercurrents: Macmillan’s Africa in the ‘Long View’ of Decolonization

    • Stephen Howe
    Pages 252-266

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 267-281
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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.

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"The essays contained within The Wind of Change provide an unparalleled exploration of Harold Macmillan's famous speech and its effects on the wider British world, from South Africa and Northern Rhodesia through Central Africa and the United States, to the United Kingdom itself. Written with clarity and elucidation throughout, this powerful work will take its essential place on the bookshelves of all historians of Britain in the twentieth century, decolonization, and the post-colonial legacy." Ben Grob-Fitzgibbon, Cleveland C. Burton Professor of International Programs, University of Arkansas, USA

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of East Anglia, UK

    L. J. Butler

  • King’s College London, UK

    Sarah Stockwell

About the editors

Simon Ball, Professor, University of Leeds, UK Saul Dubow, Professor, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Stephen Howe, Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol, UK John Kent, scholar Joanna Lewis, Lecturer, LSE, UK Sue Onslow, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Nicholas Owen, Lecturer, University of Oxford, UK Martin Shipway, Former Head of the Department, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Simon C. Smith, Reader, University of Hull, UK Martin Thomas, Professor, University of Exeter, UK Richard Toye, Professor, University of Exeter, UK

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