The Wind of Change

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Macmillan, Verwoerd and the 1960 ‘Wind of Change’ Speech

Chapter 3 Whirlwind, Hurricane, Howling Tempest: The Wind of Change and the British World

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

Chapter 5 The Wind of Change as Generational Drama

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

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

Chapter 8 A Path not Taken? British Perspectives on French Colonial Violence after 1945

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

Chapter 10 The US and Decolonization in Central Africa, 1957–64

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

Chapter 12 The Wind that Failed to Blow: British Policy and the End of Empire in the Gulf