The Wind of Change: Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization by L. Butler (En

Description: The Wind of Change by L. Butler, S. Stockwell Harold Macmillans 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 Macmillans Wind of Change, comprises a series of essays by leading historians in the field. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Harold Macmillans 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 Macmillans Wind of Change, comprises a series of essays by leading historians in the field. Author Biography Simon Ball, Professor, University of Leeds, UKSaul Dubow, Professor, Queen Mary, University of London, UKStephen Howe, Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol, UKJohn Kent, scholarJoanna Lewis, Lecturer, LSE, UKSue Onslow, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth StudiesNicholas Owen, Lecturer, University of Oxford, UKMartin Shipway, Former Head of the Department, Birkbeck, University of London, UKSimon C. Smith, Reader, University of Hull, UKMartin Thomas, Professor, University of Exeter, UKRichard Toye, Professor, University of Exeter, UK Table of Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 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 Macmillans 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: Macmillans Africa in the long view of decolonisation; Stephen Howe Review "The essays contained within The Wind of Change provide an unparalleled exploration of Harold Macmillans 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 Long Description Harold Macmillans 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 Macmillans 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. Review Quote "The essays contained within The Wind of Change provide an unparalleled exploration of Harold Macmillans 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 Details ISBN023036103X Short Title WIND OF CHANGE Series Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Language English ISBN-10 023036103X ISBN-13 9780230361034 Media Book Format Hardcover Pages 281 Year 2013 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom UK Release Date 2013-06-27 AU Release Date 2013-06-27 NZ Release Date 2013-06-27 Illustrations IX, 281 p. Edited by S. Stockwell Author S. Stockwell Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Publication Date 2013-06-27 Alternative 9781349348268 DEWEY 909.0971241 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:97219226;

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