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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Butler, L. J. (Lawrence J.) (Editor ), Stockwell, S. E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Colección:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Temas:
Macmillan, Harold, > 1894-1986.
Macmillan, Harold, > 1894-1986
Macmillan, Harold > 1894-1987
1945-1964
Decolonization > Africa.
Décolonisation > Afrique.
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.
Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 > c 1960 to c 1970 > British Empire > United Kingdom, Great Britain > Republic of South Africa.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
History.
British colonies
Decolonization
Colonies > Administration
Politics and government
Entkolonialisierung
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa > Administration.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1945-1964.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Afrique > Administration.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1945-1964.
Africa
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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