David Birmingham
David Birmingham lived in Switzerland from 1947 to 1954 as a child and returned there in the 1990s as a visiting historian. From 1980 to 2001 he held the chair of Modern History in the University of Kent at Canterbury in England. He is the author of many books, including Portugal and Africa.
Author of…
Switzerland
A Village History
Switzerland: A Village History is an account of an Alpine village that illuminates the broader history of Switzerland and its rural, local underpinnings. It begins with the colonization of the Alps by Romanized Celtic peoples who came from the plain to clear the wilderness, establish a tiny monastic house, and create a dairy economy that became famous for its cheeses.…
The Decolonization of Africa
This bold, popularizing synthesis presents a readily accessible introduction to one of the major themes of twentieth-century world history. Between 1922, when self-government was restored to Egypt, and 1994, when nonracial democracy was achieved in South Africa, 54 new nations were established in Africa.…
Kwame Nkrumah
The Father of African Nationalism
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 for the liberation of southern Africa from white settler rule.…
Portugal and Africa
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 its earliest roots.…
Empire in Africa
Angola and Its Neighbors
The dark years of European fascism left their indelible mark on Africa. As late as the 1970s, Angola was still ruled by white autocrats, whose dictatorship was eventually overthrown by black nationalists who had never experienced either the rule of law or participatory democracy.…
- Cheikh Anta Babou
Assistant professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania… - Ira J. Bach
- Mboya S. D. Bagachwa
- Lucy E. Bailey
Assistant professor of social foundations and qualitative research at Oklahoma State University and serves as core faculty in the Women’s Studies program… - Ronald T. Bailey
Planning Director for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania… - Herbert S. Bailey Jr.
- H. Robert Baker
Assistant professor of legal and constitutional history at Georgia State University… - Edward Goodwin Ballard
- Adolph Bandelier
- Edwin P. Banks
Great–granddaughter of diarist John Banks… - Laura Barbas-Rhoden
- James Barber
Member of the Centre of International Studies at Cambridge University… - Ruth Bardon
Educated at Swarthmore College, the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, now lives in Durham, North Carolina… - William Barillas
Assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse… - Charles Ferguson Barker
Geologist with an environmental consulting firm in Detroit… - Richard G. Barlow
- Mary Barnard
- R. L. Barth
Author of A Soldier's Time, Abandon Hope, and, most recently, First Morning, Last Night… - Gretchen Bauer
- Boris Bazhanov
- David Beach
Director of EcoCity Cleveland… - George Beam
- Roger Beck
Associate Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston… - Carl M. Becker
- Marc Becker
- Linda Hunt Beckman
Professor of English at Ohio University and the author of A Woman’s Portion: Ideology, Culture, and the Female Novel Tradition as well as numerous articles and essays… - Diane L. Beers
Associate professor of history at Holyoke Community College, where she teaches social, environmental, and African American history… - Heike Behrend
- Augustus Leon Beier
- William Beinart
Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford… - Michael Les Benedict
Professor of history at the Ohio State University… - J. S. Benseler
Practicing clinical radiologist and associate professor of radiology at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine, with over twenty years of experience teaching medical students, interns, and residents… - Penny Berens
Freelance writer and editor… - Bruce Berman
Professor of political studies at Queen's University, Ontario… - Vivian Bickford-Smith
Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town… - Ancella R. Bickley
Retired professor of English and Vice President for Academic Affairs at West Virginia State College… - Charles P. Bigger
- Brian Binder
- David Birmingham
- Alexander Blackburn
- David Blanke
Assistant professor of history at Briar Cliff College… - Harman Blennerhassett
- Philip Blosser
- Franz Boas
- David J. Bodenhamer
Professor of history and the executive director of The Polis Center at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis… - George Clement Bond
Author of The Politics of Change in a Zambian Community and co-editor of African Christianity, Social Construction of the Past, and AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean… - Patrick Bond
- Dieuwke Wendelaar Bonga
Member of the August 15, 1945 Foundation, an organization of survivors of the Japanese prisoner of war camps… - Yves Bonnefoy
- Philip Bonner
Professor of urban and labour history at the University of the Witwatersrand… - Philip Boobbyer
- Emile Boonzaier
Lecturer in anthropology at the University of Cape Town… - Anne Booth
- Stephane Elise Booth
Assistant dean at Kent State University, Salem Campus… - Carol Boram-Hays
Lecturer at the Ohio State University, where she received her doctorate in art history… - Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval
Associate professor of Spanish at Michigan Technological University… - Ulbe Bosma
Senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam… - Alain Bosquet
- Jacques Bourgeacq
Professor of French at the University of Iowa, specializing in African literature for the past twenty-five years… - Kenneth R. Bowling
Coeditor of The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789–1791, and the author of The Creation of Washington, D.C.: The Idea and Location of the American Capital… - Belinda Bozzoli
- David J. Bradshaw
- Ann P. Brady
- Edgar Marquess Branch
Research Professor Emeritus and Associate in American Literature at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio… - William Brandon
- Michael Bright
On the editorial staff of The Complete Works of Robert Browning… - Michael Bright
Professor emeritus at Eastern Kentucky University and the author of Robert Browning’s Rondures Brave… - Susan B. Brill
Assistant professor of English at Bradley University, where she teaches critical theory and Native American Indian literatures… - Daniel Brinton
- James Brisbin
- Joseph Bristow
Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he edits Nineteenth-Century Literature… - Joseph Bristow
Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles… - Vigdis Broch-Due
- George E. Brooks
Author of Landlords and Strangers: Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630, and numerous studies in African and world history… - John Brose
Assistant Dean for Clinical Research at Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens… - Kenneth S. Broun
Henry Brandeis Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina Law School… - Duncan Brown
- William Wells Brown
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Mark Browning
Teacher and writer at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas… - Robert Browning
- Franz-Josef Bruggemeier
- Lene Buchert
- Geoffrey L. Buckley
Assistant professor of geography at Ohio University in Athens… - Oliver S. Buckton
Associate professor of English at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, where he teaches Victorian literature, critical theory, and film… - Ralph Bunche
- Donald Burness
- J. M. Burns
Professor of African history at Clemson University… - Sidney Burris
Assistant professor of English at the University of Arkansas… - Andrew Burton
Assistant director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa in Nairobi… - David H. Burton
General editor of The Collected Works of William Howard Taft… - Fred W. Bush
- Dr. Dr. Tarunjit Singh Butalia
Research scientist at the Ohio State University… - Colin Butler
