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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 Change', comp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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| Temas: |
British & Irish history
> c 1960 to c 1970
> British Empire
> United Kingdom, Great Britain
> Republic of South Africa.
Colonialism & imperialism
> c 1960 to c 1970
> British Empire
> United Kingdom, Great Britain
> Republic of South Africa.
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
> c 1960 to c 1970
> British Empire
> United Kingdom, Great Britain
> Republic of South Africa.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 281 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137318008 1137318007 023036103X 9780230361034 |