The Wind of Change: Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Macmillan, Verwoerd and the 1960 ‘Wind of Change’ Speech....Pages 20-47
Whirlwind, Hurricane, Howling Tempest: The Wind of Change and the British World....Pages 48-69
‘White Man in a Wood Pile’: Race and the Limits of Macmillan’s Great ‘Wind of Change’ in Africa....Pages 70-95
The Wind of Change as Generational Drama....Pages 96-115
Four Straws in the Wind: Metropolitan Anti-Imperialism, January–February 1960....Pages 116-139
Words of Change: the Rhetoric of Commonwealth, Common Market and Cold War, 1961–3....Pages 140-158
A Path not Taken? British Perspectives on French Colonial Violence after 1945....Pages 159-179
The Wind of Change and the Tides of History: de Gaulle, Macmillan and the Beginnings of the French Decolonizing Endgame....Pages 180-194
The US and Decolonization in Central Africa, 1957–64....Pages 195-214
Resistance to ‘Winds of Change’: The Emergence of the ‘Unholy Alliance’ between Southern Rhodesia, Portugal and South Africa, 1964–5....Pages 215-234
The Wind that Failed to Blow: British Policy and the End of Empire in the Gulf....Pages 235-251
Crosswinds and Countercurrents: Macmillan’s Africa in the ‘Long View’ of Decolonization....Pages 252-266
Back Matter....Pages 267-281