Authors:Professor David Birmingham, David Birmingham,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: history, introductions, africa, decolonization
Number of Pages: 117
Published: 1995-11-30
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1857285409
ISBN-13: 9781857285406

This bold, popularizing synthesis presents a readily accessible introduction to one of the major themes of the twentieth-century world history. Between 1922, when self-government was restored to Egypt, and 1994, when non-racial democracy was achieved in South Africa, no less than 54 new nations were established in Africa. Written within the parameters of African history, as opposed to imperial history, this study charts the process of nationalism, liberation and independence that recast the political map of Africa in these years. Ranging from Algeria in the North, where a French colonial gover

Author: J. D. Weeks
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: birmingham
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2007-04-16
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738543667
ISBN-13: 9780738543666

Birmingham’s surrounding hills comprise the only place in the world with a plentiful supply of all the ingredients for iron making. This spurred the city of Birmingham’s charter in 1871 around the crossing of two railroads. The city’s development into a leading industrial center is shown here in photographs and postcard views, some a century old.

Author: John Birmingham
Publisher: Del Rey
Keywords: warning
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2010-07-06
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345502906
ISBN-13: 9780345502902

In Kuwait, American forces are locked and loaded for the invasion of Iraq. In Paris, a covert agent is close to cracking a terrorist cell. And just north of the equator, a sailboat manned by a drug runner and a pirate is witness to the unspeakable. In one instant, all around the world, everything will change. A wave of inexplicable energy slams into the continental United States. America as we know it vanishes. From a Texas lawyer who happens to be in the right place at the right time to an engineer in Seattle who becomes his city’s only hope, from a combat journalist trapped in the Middle E

Author: P. L. Ryan
Publisher: Jimerson Publishing Company
Keywords: birmingham, boys
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-08-07
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0615289061
ISBN-13: 9780615289069

This book spins the story of the FBI career of William Saucier, known as "the Grey Ghost," "the Sauce," and "the Bay City Strangler" in his identity as one of the Boys of Birmingham. That’s what the northern, Irish Catholic membership of the FBI office in Birmingham, Alabama was called during the 1960s. The book tells how P. L. Ryan, the daughter of Saucier, and her family had to weather the hot climate and bigoted hostilities of the area, including attacks by the Ku Klux Klan. But the Boys managed to "spook" the Klan back, as the book recalls many humorous stories about how their FBI

Author: David Birmingham
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: africa, portugal
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1999-08-14
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0312223196
ISBN-13: 9780312223199

The late-medieval Portuguese who arrived in Africa were colonizers in the Roman style, gold merchants on an imperial scale, conquistadores in the Hispanic tradition. Although their empire struggled to survive centuries of Dutch and English competition, it revived in the 20th century on a tide of white migration. Settlers, however, brought racial conflict as well as economic modernization and Portuguese colonies went through spasms of violence which resembled those of Algeria and South Africa. Liberation eventually came but peoples of the old colonial cities clung tightly to their acquired trad

Author: David Birmingham
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Keywords: africa, decolonization
Number of Pages: 117
Published: 1996-01-31
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0821411535
ISBN-13: 9780821411537

This bold, popularizing synthesis presents a readily accessible introduction to one of the major themes of the twentieth-century world history. Between 1922, when self-government was restored to Egypt, and 1994, when non-racial democracy was achieved in South Africa, no less than 54 new nations were established in Africa. Written within the parameters of African history, as opposed to imperial history, this study charts the process of nationalism, liberation and independence that recast the political map of Africa in these years. Ranging from Algeria in the North, where a French colonial gover

Author: Mary Birmingham
Publisher: Liturgy Training Publications
Keywords: catechumenate, round, year
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-05-19
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 156854412X
ISBN-13: 9781568544120

How does the vision of Christian initiation outlined in The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults fit into a program modeled after the school year? It doesn’t, argues Mary Birmingham. The RCIA describes an initiation process that exists at the heart of the Church’s life and on the same schedule as the Church: every day, all year long. While that may sound overwhelming and unimaginable, Birmingham carefully explains how it is not only possible but also the best stewardship of the gifts and talents of initiation ministers. She then walks the reader step by step through the periods a