David Birmingham

Biographic Data

ID3586060
NAMEDavid Birmingham
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEBirmingham
SIGNATUREBIRMINGHAM D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Kent
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS89
TOTAL CITATIONS182
AUTHOR COUNT89
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX8

  • A Concise History of Portugal

    David BirminghamBOOKA Concise History of Portugal2018

    This concise, illustrated history of Portugal offers an introduction to the people and culture of the country, its empire, and its search for economic modernisation, political stability and international partnership. It remains the standard single-volume work on Portugal, studying the effects of the vast wealth mined from Portuguese Brazil, the growth of the wine trade, and the evolution of international ties. The Portuguese Revolution of 1820 to…

  • Colonialism in Angola: Kinyama’s Experience

    David BirminghamCHAPTERColonial Epoch in Africa2018

    Kinyama was a thirty-six-year-old farmer who lived in a valley in southern Angola, on the northern slopes of the Benguela Highlands. By 1956 he was not rich for a man of his age, but he was comfortably off. He had three cows, and this made him one of the more prosperous middle peasants in the valley. The first way in which Kinyama had begun to feel the authority of the &s;New State&s;, which Salazar had founded twenty years earlier, was in the mo…

  • Concise History of Portugal

    David BirminghamBOOKConcise History of Portugal2018

  • Administration and Taxation in Former Portuguese Africa 1900-1945

    David BirminghamARTICLECanadian Journal of African…2017Cited by: 3

  • Portugal and Africa

    David BirminghamBOOKPortugal and Africa2016

  • Concise History of Portugal

    David BirminghamBOOKConcise History of Portugal2014

  • Angola 2006: A British Parliamentary Visit

    David BirminghamARTICLELusotopie2009

    In 2006 the author acted as interpreter for a small party of British politicians who visited Angola. His own account of the expedition highlighted the then prominent questions of agriculture and rural development, of the empowerment of women in urban communities, of perceptions of national identity and the role of electoral politics. The effect of rising and falling oil wealth on legitimate investment and on corrupt embezzlement had to be delicat…

  • Uma estudiosa da África lusófona

    Open AccessDavid BirminghamARTICLELer História2008

    Durante trinta anos Jill e o seu falecido marido, Alberto Romão Dias, viveram num bonito apartamento, nas Amoreiras, com terraços floridos da parte da frente e nas traseiras e uma majestosa vista sobre o Tejo e a serra da Arrábida. O apartamento estava preenchido do chão até ao tecto com a maravilhosa biblioteca da Jill – e também com os cachimbos de tabaco que Alberto fumava quando era membro do governo, dirigente na Faculdade ou director de uma…

  • Notes de lecture

    Victor Pereira, Jean-Pierre Chavagne et al.ARTICLELusotopie2007

    Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections

  • João Pedro Marques, Portugal e a escravatura dos africanos: Lisbon, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2004, 160 p

    David BirminghamARTICLELusotopie2007

    João Pedro Marques, Portugal e a escravatura dos africanos, Lisbon, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2004, 160 p., ISBN : 972-671-118-5 (« Colecção breve : História »)" published on 23 Oct 2007 by Brill

  • João Loureiro, Memórias de Lourenço Marques: Uma visão do passado da cidade de Maputo

    David BirminghamARTICLELusotopie2006

    pas une situation de conflit -ceci d'autant plus que les aides dj apportes au moment de l'enqute n'avaient donn que peu de rsultats

  • Empire in Africa: Angola and Its Neighbors

    David BirminghamBOOKEmpire in Africa2006Cited by: 12

  • Empire in Africa: Angola and Its Neighbors

    David BirminghamBOOKEmpire in Africa2006

    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. Empire in Africa takes the long view of history and asks whether the colonizing ventures of the Portuguese can bear comparison with those of the Mediterranean Ottomans o…

  • A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa

    M Anne Pitcher, Patrick Chabal et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2004Cited by: 8

    A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa. By Patrick Chabal with David Birmingham, Joshua Forrest, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibert, and Elisa Silva Andrade. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xx, 339; 1 map. $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa explores contemporary debates regarding African politics in the context of the countries of Africa, that is, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, a…

  • A Concise History of Portugal

    Open AccessDavid BirminghamBOOKConcise History of Portugal2003

    This concise, illustrated history of Portugal, first published in 2003, offers an introduction to the people and culture of the country, its empire, and to its search for economic modernisation, political stability and international partnership. The book studies the effects of the vast wealth mined from Portuguese Brazil, the growth of the wine trade, and the evolution of international ties. The Portuguese Revolution of 1820 to 1851 created a lib…

  • Trade and Empire in the Atlantic 1400-1600

    David BirminghamBOOKTrade and Empire in the Atlantic…2002Cited by: 4

    Trade and Empire in the Atlantic 1400-1600 provides an accessible and concise introduction to European expansion overseas during the early modern period. It explains why and how seafarers visited the Caribbean, South America and Africa, and looks at the history of the communities that lived around the ocean as they responded to the challenges and opportunities which sea trade opened for them. Historical thinking on the subject of Empire is natura…

  • Shula: A Personal Tribute

    David BirminghamARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2001

    (2001). Shula: A Personal Tribute. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 399-404

  • Portugal and Africa

    Pedro Machado, Pedro M Machado et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2001

  • Nkrumah and the Chiefs: The Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana 1951-60

    Open AccessDavid Birmingham, Richard RathboneARTICLECanadian Journal of African…2001Cited by: 19

  • Angola Revisited

    David BirminghamCHAPTERPortugal and Africa1999

    This portrait of Angola in 1987 was written shortly before great changes came to the region. Within three years South Africa had been militarily defeated in Angola and its army had surrendered power to reforming Afrikaners and nationalist Africans, the Cuban expeditionary force of 30 000 soldiers had returned to the West Indies, and the Soviet Union had collapsed as a global power and rival to the United States. This chapter therefore analyses An…

  • Early African Trade in Angola

    David BirminghamCHAPTERPortugal and Africa1999

    Although the Portuguese were particularly keen to find precious metals in the hinterland of the harbours they frequented in Africa, they also took care to examine any other trading opportunities that might present themselves. The production and distribution of textiles and of salt were among the important trades which they attempted to dominate. Although Angola’s silver mines were entirely mythical, real mines produced iron near the coast and cop…

  • Iberian Conquistadores and African Resisters in the Kongo Kingdom

    David BirminghamCHAPTERPortugal and Africa1999

    This chapter consists of a lecture presented at the international congress of historians held in Madrid in 1990 and it was published in the two volumes of congress transactions. The topic was shaped to reflect the Spanish tradition of land-hungry colonial conquistadores. Although the Portuguese commercial tradition of seafaring colonial activity was very different from the Spanish military practice, the Portuguese empire in Central Africa was non…

  • Britain and the Ultimatum of 1890

    David BirminghamCHAPTERPortugal and Africa1999

    This chapter is the author’s only foray into diplomatic history and was written on the occasion of the centenary of the 1890 confrontation between Portugal and Britain over the colonial seizure of the Zambezi heartlands. The episode reverberated long and loud in Portuguese history but not in British history. One of the key figures, however, was Cecil Rhodes, who subsequently became an imperial folk-hero in Britain and an archetypal villain in Por…

  • Youth and War in Angola

    David BirminghamCHAPTERPortugal and Africa1999

    This chapter was presented in absentia to a Paris conference entitled Les Jeunes en Afrique and subsequently published in 1992 by Harmattan in the two stout volumes of transactions. The year 1992 was Angola’s first — and last — year of peace since the great rebellions of 1961. A whole generation had grown to adulthood knowing nothing but the insecurities of war in which boy-soldiers were conscripted as colonial auxiliaries while girl-children liv…

  • Colonialism in Angola: Kinyama’s Experience

    David BirminghamCHAPTERPortugal and Africa1999

    This story is not history but is fiction based on historical circumstances. It was not intended for publication, but was given as a lecture at the University of Cape Town in 1977 in an attempt to illuminate, for the benefit of South Africans, the colonial situation in which their army had become embroiled. The lecture’s subsequent publication by the Historical Society of Nigeria in the journal Tarikh in 1980 led to its use for training undergradu…