Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 281 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781299951761
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9780230361034
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9781137318008
Series Statement:
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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Introduction
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1. Macmillan, Verwoerd, and the 1960 'Wind of Change' Speech
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2. Whirlwind, Hurricane, Howling Tempest: the Wind of Change and the British World
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3. 'White Man in a Wood Pile': Race and the limits of Macmillan's great 'Wind of Change' in Africa
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4. The Wind of Change as Generational Drama
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5. Four Straws in the Wind: Metropolitan Anti-Imperialism, January-February 1960
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6. 'Words of Change: the rhetoric of Commonwealth, Common Market, and Cold War, 1961-3'
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7. A path not taken? British perspectives on French colonial violence after 1945
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8. The Winds of Change and the Tides of History: de Gaulle, Macmillan and the Beginnings of the French decolonising Endgame
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9. The US and Decolonisation in Central Africa: 1957-1964
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10. Resistance to 'Winds of Change': The emergence of the 'unholy alliance' between Southern Rhodesia, Portugal and South Africa 1964-1965
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11. The wind that failed to blow: British policy and the end of empire in the Gulf
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12. Crosswinds and Countercurrents: Macmillan's Africa in the 'long view' of decolonisation
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Macmillan, Verwoerd and the 1960 'Wind of Change' Speech; 2 Whirlwind, Hurricane, Howling Tempest: The Wind of Change and the British World; 3 'White Man in a Wood Pile': Race and the Limits of Macmillan's Great 'Wind of Change' in Africa; 4 The Wind of Change as Generational Drama; 5 Four Straws in the Wind: Metropolitan Anti-Imperialism, January-February 1960; 6 Words of Change: the Rhetoric of Commonwealth, Common Market and Cold War, 1961-3
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7 A Path not Taken? British Perspectives on French Colonial Violence after 19458 The Wind of Change and the Tides of History: de Gaulle, Macmillan and the Beginnings of the French Decolonizing Endgame; 9 The US and Decolonization in Central Africa, 1957-64; 10 Resistance to 'Winds of Change': The Emergence of the 'Unholy Alliance' between Southern Rhodesia, Portugal and South Africa, 1964-5; 11 The Wind that Failed to Blow: British Policy and the End of Empire in the Gulf; 12 Crosswinds and Countercurrents: Macmillan's Africa in the 'Long View' of Decolonization; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230361034
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780230361034
Language:
English
Keywords:
Macmillan, Harold 1894-1986
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Großbritannien
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Afrika
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Entkolonialisierung
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Geschichte 1960-1965
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