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This book draws together relevant research findings to produce the first comprehensive overview of Indigenous peoples' mobility. Chapters draw from a range of disciplinary sources, and from a diversity of regions and nation-states. Within nations, mobility is the key determinant of local population change, with implications for service delivery, needs assessment, and governance. Mobility also provides a key indicator of social and economic transformation. As such, it informs both social theory and policy debate. For much of the twentieth century conventional wisdom anticipated the steady convergence of socio-demographic trends, seeing this as an inevitable concomitant of the development process. However, the patterns and trends in population movement observed in this book suggest otherwise, and provide a forceful manifestation of changing race relations in these new world settings. eBook available with sample pages: 0203464788
Late Quaternary Environmental Change addresses the interaction
between human agency and other environmental factors in the
landscapes, particularly of the temperate zone. Taking an
ecological approach, the authors cover the last 20,000 years during
which the climate has shifted from arctic severity to the
conditions of the present interglacial environment.
Milos Stankovic worked as an interpreter and liaison officer for senior British commanders and two British UN generals – Mike Rose and Rupert Smith. Armed with the pseudonym ‘Mike Stanley’ he was propelled from one nerve-racking crisis to another as he helped negotiate ceasefires between rival warlords, secured the release of UN hostages and organised the escape from Sarajevo of stricken families.Yet his close contacts with the Bosnian Serb leadership of Dr Karadzic and General Mladic bred suspicion and paranoia on all sides – not just in the Bosnian Muslim and Serb ranks (who thought he might be a British spy – General Rose’s ‘trusted mole’) but in the minds of the Americans as well. In a final, horrific twist, the author was arrested by the British authorities on suspicion of being a Serb spy – two and a half years after returning from Bosnia.
Late Quaternary Environmental Change: Physical and Human
Perspectives
Martin Bell and Michael J. C. Walker
Second edition
"Late Quaternary Environmental Change" considers the interaction
between human agency and other environmental factors in the
landscape. This second edition has been extensively revised,
rewritten and reillustrated to take account of remarkable
developments in Quaternary Science and Archaeology over the last
twelve years. The book deals largely with events over the course of
the last 25, 000 years during which the climate of the mid- and
high-latitude regions of the world shifted from one of arctic
severity to warmer regimes of the present interglacial period. The
natural environmental changes of this period were accompanied by
equally dramatic human social change, as environments were
increasingly transformed by human activities, leading to the
creation of cultural landscapes.
Key features
- Environmental changes, particularly in the northern temperate
zone, are examined at a range of temporal and spatial scales.
- An ecological dynamic approach is adopted in which the role of
human agency is seen as part of a spectrum of interacting
disturbance factors.
- Integration of scientific and social perspectives is given
particular emphasis through consideration of the nature of
environmental changes and how they were perceived.
- New perspectives are provided for current debates on future
environmental management and the formulation of sustainable
strategies and conservation policies.
This text will be essential reading for students in archaeology,
geography, environmental science, geology, history andenvironmental
conservation. It will also be of interest to professional
archaeologists, and anyone with an interest in the study of
archaeology and environmental history.
Martin Bell is Professor of Archaeological Science at the
University of Reading, UK where he teaches Geoarchaeology and
Environmental Archaeology.
Mike Walker is Professor of Quaternary Science at the University of
Wales, Lampeter, UK.
In 1992 Bosnia descended into a savage and bitter civil war, which
by 1995 had claimed over a quarter of a million lives. Following
the Dayton Peace Agreement between the warring Bosnian Serbs,
Muslims and Croats, NATO began its first land operation, taking
over from the UN Protection Force. With a total of only 200 men, a
British battlegroup was charged to enforce the peace in a 100km
area, through which wound a front line separating the territory of
the Bosnian Muslims from that of the Bosnian Serb forces. In this
updated edition of the acclaimed book A Cold War, Brigadier Ben
Barry has produced the definitive account of the British Army's
dangerous and groundbreaking operations in Bosnia.
This edited collection shows how demographic analysis plays a
pivotal role in planning, policy and funding decisions in
Australia. Drawing on the latest demographic data and methods,
these case studies in applied demography demonstrate that
population dynamics underpin the full spectrum of contemporary
social, economic and political issues. The contributors harness a
range of demographic statistics and develop innovative techniques
demonstrating how population dynamics influence issues such as
electoral representation, the distribution of government funding,
metropolitan and local planning, the provision of aged housing,
rural depopulation, coastal growth, ethnic diversity and the
well-being of Australia's Indigenous community. Moving beyond
simple statistics, the case studies show that demographic methods
and models offer crucial insights into contemporary problems and
provide essential perspectives to aid efficiency, equity in public
policy and private sector planning. Together the volume represents
essential reading for students across the social sciences as for
policy makers in government and private industry.
This edited collection shows how demographic analysis plays a
pivotal role in planning, policy and funding decisions in
Australia. Drawing on the latest demographic data and methods,
these case studies in applied demography demonstrate that
population dynamics underpin the full spectrum of contemporary
social, economic and political issues. The contributors harness a
range of demographic statistics and develop innovative techniques
demonstrating how population dynamics influence issues such as
electoral representation, the distribution of government funding,
metropolitan and local planning, the provision of aged housing,
rural depopulation, coastal growth, ethnic diversity and the
well-being of Australia's Indigenous community. Moving beyond
simple statistics, the case studies show that demographic methods
and models offer crucial insights into contemporary problems and
provide essential perspectives to aid efficiency, equity in public
policy and private sector planning. Together the volume represents
essential reading for students across the social sciences as for
policy makers in government and private industry.
There are no winners in war, only losers. We have so far avoided a
third world war, but across the globe regional conflicts flare up
in a seemingly unstoppable cycle. Who can stand between the armed
camps? Over six decades, Martin Bell has stood in eighteen war
zones - as a soldier, a reporter and a UNICEF ambassador. Now he
looks back on our efforts to keep the peace since the end of the
Second World War and the birth of the United Nations peacekeeping
mission in the new State of Israel. From the failures of Bosnia,
Rwanda and South Sudan to nationalism's resurgence and the
distribution of alternative facts across a darkening political
landscape, Bell calls for us to learn from past mistakes - before
it's too late.
Archaeological fieldwork in the inter-tidal zone of the Severn
Estuary over the past twenty years has revealed a rich landscape of
prehistoric settlement. This latest volume by Professor Martin Bell
presents the evidence for the Bronze Age, focusing on sites at
Redwick and Peterstone in the Gwent Levels. At Redwick, a
settlement of four rectangular buildings, defined by well-preserved
timber posts dating to the middle Bronze Age (1600-940 cal BC), is
surrounded by footprint-tracks of animals and humans. Peterstone
and other locations in the estuary have revealed a variety of wood
artefacts and structures, and features such as fish traps,
trackways and sites of seasonal encampments. The relationship
between the wetland and dry ground settlements around the estuary
is explored in detail, through artefacts, pollen and stable isotope
analysis. The author concludes that there is clear evidence for
transhumance throughout the Bronze Age. In the final chapters the
author compares the Severn Estuary with other coastal sites of the
Bronze Age in Britain and continental Europe.
The book draws on the evidence of landscape archaeology,
palaeoenvironmental studies, ethnohistory and animal tracking to
address the neglected topic of how we identify and interpret past
patterns of movement in the landscape. It challenges the pessimism
of previous generations which regarded prehistoric routes such as
hollow ways as generally undatable. The premise is that
archaeologists tend to focus on 'sites' while neglecting the
patterns of habitual movement that made them part of living
landscapes. Evidence of past movement is considered in a
multi-scalar way from the individual footprint to the long distance
path including the traces created in vegetation by animal and human
movement. It is argued that routes may be perpetuated over long
timescales creating landscape structures which influence the
activities of subsequent generations. In other instances radical
changes of axes of communication and landscape structures provide
evidence of upheaval and social change. Palaeoenvironmental and
ethnohistorical evidence from the American North West coast sets
the scene with evidence for the effects of burning, animal
movement, faeces deposition and transplantation which can create
readable routes along which are favoured resources. Evidence from
European hunter-gatherer sites hints at similar practices of niche
construction on a range of spatial scales. On a local scale,
footprints help to establish axes of movement, the locations of
lost settlements and activity areas. Wood trackways likewise
provide evidence of favoured patterns of movement and past
settlement location. Among early farming communities alignments of
burial mounds, enclosure entrances and other monuments indicate
axes of communication. From the middle Bronze Age in Europe there
is more clearly defined evidence of trackways flanked by ditches
and fields. Landscape scale survey and excavation enables the
dating of trackways using spatial relationships with dated features
and many examples indicate long-term continuity of routeways. Where
fields flank routeways a range of methods, including scientific
approaches, provide dates. Prehistorians have often assumed that
Ridgeways provided the main axes of early movement but there is
little evidence for their early origins and rather better evidence
for early routes crossing topography and providing connections
between different environmental zones. The book concludes with a
case study of the Weald of South East England which demonstrates
that some axes of cross topographic movement used as droveways, and
generally considered as early medieval, can be shown to be of
prehistoric origin. One reason that dryland routes have proved
difficult to recognise is that insufficient attention has been paid
to the parts played by riverine and maritime longer distance
communication. It is argued that understanding the origins of the
paths we use today contributes to appreciation of the distinctive
qualities of landscapes. Appreciation will help to bring about
effective strategies for conservation of mutual benefit to people
and wildlife by maintaining and enhancing corridors of connectivity
between different landscape zones including fragmented nature
reserves and valued places. In these ways an understanding of past
routeways can contribute to sustainable landscapes, communities and
quality of life.
Born in Hampshire in 1918, Martin Bell was the leading member of
the 'lost generation' of English poets whose careers were
interrupted by the War. He was a prominent member of The Group
during the fifties, and a major influence on younger poets like
Peter Redgrove and Peter Porter. His poetry reached a wide audience
during the sixties through Penguin Modern Poets, and in 1967 he
published his Collected Poems,1937-1966, his first and last book.
Bell was also a champion and brilliant translator of French
Surrealist poets. He died in poverty in Leeds in 1978. Like other
'provincial' working-class contemporaries, Bell wrote fantastical,
highly erudite, biting, belligerent poetry. And yet - as Philip
Hobsbaum said - he also wrote 'some of the most delicate love poems
of our time' as well as 'one of the major war poems in the
language'. A. Alvarez called him 'an emotional tightrope walker...
He writes a rather bitter, tensely colloquial verse based, it
seems, on a radical dislike for both himself and pretty much
everything else.'
Martin Bell, the former BBC war reporter and Independent MP, served
as a soldier in the British army in Cyprus in the late 1950s during
the EOKA rebellion against British rule, and recently he discovered
the letters he had written home during the conflict. They describe
road blocks and cordons and searches, murders and explosions and
riots - and a strategy of armed repression that failed. Now, almost
sixty years later, he has used these letters to write The End of
Empire. His narrative is a powerful personal account of the violent
process of decolonization, of the character of the British army at
the time and the impact of National Service on young men who were
not much more than 'kids in uniform'. He also gives a graphic
insight into the futility of the use of force in wars among the
people and reveals, for the first time, the true story of the
insurgency and the campaign to defeat it, for recently declassified
documents show that the army commanders adopted misguided tactics
that served only to strengthen support for their enemy.
A smoke bomb went off. Then shots were fired from buildings overlooking the square… The camera had a BBC News sign on it. Someone cried out from the crowd: ‘You are the world, you are the world, you have to tell what they are doing to our people.’
From Vietnam to Iraq, Martin Bell has seen how war has changed over the last fifty years, neither fought nor reported the way it used to be. Truth is degraded in the name of balance and good taste, reports are delivered from the sidelines, and social media, with rumours and unverifiable videos, has ushered in a post-truth world.
As modern news increasingly seeks to entertain first and inform second, the man in the white suit provides a moving account of all he has witnessed throughout his career and issues an impassioned call to put the substance back into reporting.
A concise account of Finland's foreign affairs and domestic
politics as a close neighbour of Soviet Russia during the Cold War
period between the end of the Second World War and the close end of
Kekkonen's Presidency in 1981. Finland - The Kekkonen Years is a
concise and near-contemporaneous account of Finland's foreign
affairs, domestic politics and economic fortunes in the period
between the end of the Second World War and the close of the
Kekkonen era in 1981. This was the era of the Cold War in Europe,
of constant and sometimes acute tension between East and West. For
Finland in particular these were years of enormous diplomatic
challenge as the country strove in a complex relationship with its
super-power neighbour the Soviet Union to retain its democratic
institutions of government, its independence and neutrality and to
nurture a successful Western market economy. That it achieved all
of these can be regarded as the legacy of its long-serving
President, Urho Kekkonen, and one which survived intact to the end
of the Cold War at the close of 1989, just three years after his
death. Written by a close observer of Finnish affairs, who was
resident in that country during part of Kekkonen's term of office,
the book was completed in 1986 and is published here for the first
time.
Modeled on Cicero’s De natura deorum, this classic treatise on natural religion portrays the eighteenth-century conflict between scientific theism and philosophical skepticism. Hume savages the traditional arguments for the existence of God and suggests that the only religion that can stand up to serious scrutiny is one that is rationally and philosophically derived by the human mind.
Title: Doctor Weld; or, The Web of life. By the author of "Deeds
not words" i.e. M. M. Bell], &c.Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied
collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view
of the world. Topics include health, education, economics,
agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and
industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
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British Library Bell, M. M.; Bell, Letitia Mary Martin; 1866. 2
vol. 19 cm. 12624.aa.12.
Title: Seventeen to Twenty-one; or, Aunt Vonica ... With original
illustrations.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the
British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides
readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and
19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of
audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader
looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the
main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy,
and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Bell, Letitia Mary
Martin; 1876.]. vii. 463 p.; 8 . 12638.m.13.
Summary: How engineers developed new technologies to broadcast
television in digital form, and how Britain in 1998 became the
first country to launch a digital terrestrial service. Based on
interviews with engineers who were involoved, and including simple
explanations of the engineering involved, this is a book for the
general reader. In More Detail: This is an account of how an
international team of engineers developed new technologies which
would allow television to be broadcast in digital form, and how
Britain in 1998 became the first country to launch a digital
terrestrial service. Beginning with efforts in the 1950s and 1960s
to improve the existing analogue television technology, and the
appearance in the 1980s of the ill-fated MAC system, the book
traces the development and gradual introduction of digital
techniques for manipulating and storing pictures in the studio,
through the collaborative efforts of the early 1990s to specify a
new family of standards for digital broadcasting, to the triumphs
and tribulations which followed the early launch of digital
television in Britain and in some other countries.. Based on
interviews with a number of the people who made it happen, and
including simple explanations of the engineering involved, this is
a book for the general reader with an interest in the history of
technology and how things work.
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