The Wind of Change

1. Introduction
Sarah Stockwell, L. J. Butler

2. Macmillan, Verwoerd and the 1960 ‘Wind of Change’ Speech
Saul Dubow

3. Whirlwind, Hurricane, Howling Tempest: The Wind of Change and the British World
Stuart Ward

4. ‘White Man in a Wood Pile’: Race and the Limits of Macmillan’s Great ‘Wind of Change’ in Africa
J. E. Lewis

5. The Wind of Change as Generational Drama
Simon Ball

6. Four Straws in the Wind: Metropolitan Anti-Imperialism, January–February 1960
Nicholas Owen

7. Words of Change: the Rhetoric of Commonwealth, Common Market and Cold War, 1961–3
Richard Toye

8. A Path not Taken? British Perspectives on French Colonial Violence after 1945
Martin Thomas

9. The Wind of Change and the Tides of History: de Gaulle, Macmillan and the Beginnings of the French Decolonizing Endgame
Martin Shipway

10. The US and Decolonization in Central Africa, 1957–64
John Kent

11. Resistance to ‘Winds of Change’: The Emergence of the ‘Unholy Alliance’ between Southern Rhodesia, Portugal and South Africa, 1964–5
Sue Onslow

12. The Wind that Failed to Blow: British Policy and the End of Empire in the Gulf
Simon C. Smith

13. Crosswinds and Countercurrents: Macmillan’s Africa in the ‘Long View’ of Decolonization
Stephen Howe

Avainsanat: History, African History, History of Britain and Ireland, Modern History, Political History, Imperialism and Colonialism