Wind of Change: Harold MacMillan and British Decolonization

by Harold Macmillan, Larry Butler (Editor), Sarah Stockwell (Editor)

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.

292 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Great Britain appeased Adolf Hitler, but Maurice Harold Macmillan, first earl of Stockton and British politician, joined Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill in the 1930s, condemned him, and from 1957 as prime minister sought entry into the European Economic Community to 1963.

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