The Wind of Change Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization
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 Chan
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Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
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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Contents Acknowledgements
vii
Notes on Contributors
viii
Introduction Sarah Stockwell and L.J. Butler
1
1 Macmillan, Verwoerd and the 1960 ‘Wind of Change’ Speech Saul Dubow
20
2 Whirlwind, Hurricane, Howling Tempest: The Wind of Change and the British World Stuart Ward
48
3 ‘White Man in a Wood Pile’: Race and the Limits of Macmillan’s Great ‘Wind of Change’ in Africa J.E. Lewis
70
4 The Wind of Change as Generational Drama Simon Ball
96
5 Four Straws in the Wind: Metropolitan Anti-Imperialism, January–February 1960 Nicholas Owen
116
6 Words of Change: the Rhetoric of Commonwealth, Common Market and Cold War, 1961–3 Richard Toye
140
7 A Path not Taken? British Perspectives on French Colonial Violence after 1945 Martin Thomas
159
8 The Wind
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