Focusing on the four New World countries - Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States - this volume explores key themes and issues in indigenous mobility. In each of these countries, indigenous peoples share a common historical experience of population decline as a consequence of colonization by non-indigenes, followed by a period of recuperation, and more recently, rapid growth under regimes of welfare colonialism. In discussing this, the contributions draw out the commonalities and differences in the experience of the four countries. The book should be of interest to scholars and...

A concise account of Finlands 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 Kekkonens Presidency in 1981.



Finland - The Kekkonen Years is a concise and near-contemporaneous account of Finlands 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...

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...

Demography for Planning and Policy: Australian Case Studies