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Professor David Birmingham,David Birmingham
An accessible and concise introduction to European expansion overseas during the early modern period. It is the ideal guide to a controversial and essential topic of world history.
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David Birmingham
Switzerland: A Village History is an account of an Alpine village that illuminates the broader history of Switzerland and its rural, local underpinnings.
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The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960. He campaigned ceaselessly for African solidarity and…
Portugal was the first European nation to assert itself aggressively in African affairs. David Birmingham’s Portugal and Africa, a collection of uniquely accessible historical essays, surveys this colonial encounter from…
David Birmingham,David Birmingham
This synthesis presents an accessible introduction to one of the major themes of 20th-century world history namely, the decolonization of Africa.
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The complete Cambridge History of Africa was intended to present the most comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of historical development on the African continent. Central Africa to 1870: Zambezia, Zaire and…
David Birmingham (University of Kent, Canterbury)
This concise, illustrated history of Portugal introduces the people and culture of the country, its empire, and its search for economic modernization, political stability and international partnership.
A concise, illustrated history of Portugal, offering an introduction to the people and culture of the country, its empire, and its search for economic modernisation right up till the present…
Professor David Birmingham
Angola of geopolitical interest and this offers a brief history
In a lively and accessible way, this book tells the story of the diverse and colourful people who occupied Canterbury before the Normans.
John Birmingham
As a hardworking monster-slayer, Dave Hooper tries not to bring his work home with him. But nowadays it’s hard to keep them separate. Email, cellphones, empath daemons, they never let…
David Birmingham,Valerie Haynes Perry
Software Development on a Leash is designed as a roadmap for experienced developers and architects who are interested in implementing a turbocharged software development process that encourages reuse and innovation.
Holed up in Las Vegas after the tumultuous Battle of New Orleans, Dave is enjoying the VIP perks afforded a champion monster-slayer. He may be a superhero of swag and…
When an oil rig drills too deep, it unleashes a torrent of nightmares - the creatures of legend, always thought to be figments of our imagination, are now a very…
David Harvey
A nostalgic journey across Birmingham on the 29A.
Takes us back to 1958, with archive pictures of Birmingham buses and many facts providing memories of the year in question.
With previously unpublished photographs, the author documents the history of Birmingham’s Crossley buses.
David Williams
Birmingham has been a key innovator in the gun trade since the seventeenth century and the Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof house operates to this day.
David Harvey explores the history of Birmingham public transport before the electric Tram.
With previously unpublished images looking at the demonstrator buses used by Birmingham City Transport.
David Harvey explores, with the help of illustrations, what happened to Birmingham buses after withdrawal from service.
Takes readers on the 8-mile ride along the Bristol Road to the Lickey Hills, Rubery and Rednall, and to Cotteridge, Moseley and Alcester Lanes End. This title also gives the…
During 1990-94, many locomotive classes became extinct, but new builds helped to redress the balance. Speedlink ended, but the first Eurostars appeared. In 1994, the Channel Tunnel opened. This book…
David Aretha
Examines the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement, including the organizers of the protests, the movement’s support from young people, the violence that occurred, and the integration of Birmingham –Provided by publisher.
David Roberts (Birmingham City University)
Providing an account of how Restoration plays were written, performed, printed, adapted and revived for modern audiences, this accessible and engaging book is of great interest to undergraduate and non-specialist…
Takes the reader on a journey to South Yardley, Tyseley, Acocks Green, Ladywood, Lozells, Perry Barr, Witton, Short Heath, Erdington, Pype Hayes, Washwood Heath and Alum Rock, contrasting the bustle…
Birmingham was slow to introduce buses, but was at the forefront of vehicle development and passenger comfort in the 1920s and ‘30s, with one of the first top-covered fleets. This…
David Keogh
In the early 1960s, Ronnie and Reggie Kray are the new princes of the London underworld and business is good. Their clubs and protection rackets stretch from the East to…
Presents a set of annotated oral interviews from the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement to be undertaken by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. This book reconsiders the links…
Patrick Chabal,David Birmingham,Joshua Forrest,Malyn Newitt
The result is a comprehensive, readable, and up-to-date text and reference work on the evolution of postcolonial Portuguese-speaking Africa.
This fascinating selection of photographs gives an insight into Birmingham and its transport in the Coronation year.
David Roberts (Birmingham City University, UK)
George Farquhar (1677-1707) is one of the most successful and enduringly popular Restoration playwrights. His two masterpieces, The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux’ Stratagem, are still regularly performed today. Yet…
David Jones
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
Peter Birmingham,David Wilkinson
This practical, jargon-free, user-friendly guide to the most appropriate use of research instruments provides ‘real’ examples used in actual projects by practitioners of social and educational research.
David A Booth (University of Birmingham)
David Falkner
The author of The Last Yankee and Nine Sides of the Diamond explores in detail the lifelong influences on Jackie Robinson, the pressures he had to bear, and the contributions…
David Brazil (University of Birmingham)
Poetry. California Interest. Jewish Studies. Religious Studies. The 18 suites of poems that make up ANTISOCIAL PATIENCE are a kind of diary of days lived in the aftermath of political…
