The Wind of Change

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 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