Birmingham A History In Maps

Author : Paul Leslie Line
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780752460895
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birmingham written by Paul Leslie Line and published by History Press. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the exceptional town plans and maps contained within this unique volume emerges a social picture of Birmingham; a town quickly developing in size and population in the eighteenth century; along with the changes brought about by urbanisation. Land was bought up for development; hundreds of 'courts' were built to home the industrial workers pouring in from the many outlying villages. The many gardens, orchards and wide expanses of open space detailed on Wesley's 1731 plan of Birmingham were soon to be transformed into a sprawling mass of habitation.By 1765 Matthew Boulton, a leading entrepreneur and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution, had built his famous Soho Manufactory on Handsworth Heath. Shortly afterwards, the town plans of Birmingham in the first quarter of the 1800s chart the arrival of the railway; a plan from 1832 is the last glimpse of the city before the arrival of the Grand Junction Railway and other main line stations. Accompanied with informative text and pictures of the cityscape, the many detailed plans contained in this historic atlas of Birmingham are a gateway to its past, allowing the reader and researcher to visually observe the journey of this historic town to city status in 1889 and beyond.

Author : Map Mercia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781844914623
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History in Maps Birmingham 1731 written by Map Mercia and published by . This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Parker
Publisher : Times Books
ISBN 13 : 9780008258344
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Britain in Maps written by Philip Parker and published by Times Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 maps give a visual representation of the history of Britain. From Mappa Mundi to modern election maps, UK has evolved rapidly, along with the ways in which it has been mapped

Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143126024
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the World in 12 Maps written by Jerry Brotton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller “Maps allow the armchair traveler to roam the world, the diplomat to argue his points, the ruler to administer his country, the warrior to plan his campaigns and the propagandist to boost his cause… rich and beautiful.” – Wall Street Journal Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the almost mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Brotton shows how each of his maps both influenced and reflected contemporary events and how, by considering it in all its nuances and omissions, we can better understand the world that produced it. Although the way we map our surroundings is more precise than ever before, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been. Readers of this beautifully illustrated and masterfully argued book will never look at a map in quite the same way again. “A fascinating and panoramic new history of the cartographer’s art.” – The Guardian “The intellectual background to these images is conveyed with beguiling erudition…. There is nothing more subversive than a map.” – The Spectator “A mesmerizing and beautifully illustrated book.” —The Telegraph

Author : A-Z Maps
Publisher : A-Z Street Atlas
ISBN 13 : 9781843488842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Birmingham A-Z Street Atlas written by A-Z Maps and published by A-Z Street Atlas. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Big Scale A-Z map of Birmingham is a full colour, spiral bound street atlas featuring 164 pages of continuous street mapping. Shown at a clear 4 inches to 1 mile (7.5cm to 1 km) it extends to include coverage of: -Great Wyrley-Brownhills-Wolverhampton-Walsall-Aldridge-Sutton Coldfield-Dudley-West Bromwich-Stourbridge-Halesowen-Solihull-DorridgeIn addition, there are large scale city centre maps of Birmingham and Wolverhampton.Postcode districts, one-way streets, safety camera locations with their maximum speed limit and park and rides sites are featured on the mapping.The index section lists streets, selected flats, walkways and places of interest, place and area names, National Rail and Midland Metro stations. There is a separate list of hospitals and hospices covered by this atlas.On the back cover is a diagrammatic map of Birmingham Rail and Metro Connections.

Author : Richard Fussell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Demographic Atlas of Birmingham, 1960-1970 written by Richard Fussell and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Dean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780947712082
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Map of the Birmingham Canals written by Richard Dean and published by . This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Godfrey Maps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841517261
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birmingham and District 1910 written by Alan Godfrey Maps and published by . This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birmingham and District 1910

Author : Carl Chinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781382455
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birmingham written by Carl Chinn and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, factually rich and visually stunning publication is the first major history of Birmingham for more than four decades.

Author : Glenn T. Eskew
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807861324
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book But for Birmingham written by Glenn T. Eskew and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birmingham served as the stage for some of the most dramatic and important moments in the history of the civil rights struggle. In this vivid narrative account, Glenn Eskew traces the evolution of nonviolent protest in the city, focusing particularly on the sometimes problematic intersection of the local and national movements. Eskew describes the changing face of Birmingham's civil rights campaign, from the politics of accommodation practiced by the city's black bourgeoisie in the 1950s to local pastor Fred L. Shuttlesworth's groundbreaking use of nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation during the late 1950s and early 1960s. In 1963, the national movement, in the person of Martin Luther King Jr., turned to Birmingham. The national uproar that followed on Police Commissioner Bull Connor's use of dogs and fire hoses against the demonstrators provided the impetus behind passage of the watershed Civil Rights Act of 1964. Paradoxically, though, the larger victory won in the streets of Birmingham did little for many of the city's black citizens, argues Eskew. The cancellation of protest marches before any clear-cut gains had been made left Shuttlesworth feeling betrayed even as King claimed a personal victory. While African Americans were admitted to the leadership of the city, the way power was exercised--and for whom--remained fundamentally unchanged.