Book Review: Britain and Ireland: The Political Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Britain

Book reviews* GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

This important book is a pioneering application of a Geographical Information System (GIS) to medieval data, bringing together two national sources: the Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPM) for the period 1300–49 and the 1327, 1332, and 1334 lay subsidies.The results are in the form of numerous tables, graphs, and maps. Built around these is a series of invaluable commentaries. After a concise accoun...

Development and Underdevelopment in Britain and Ireland

Many people, covering many academic disciplines, have an interest in what they would refer to as development, and approach it from the direction of what they conceive to be underdevelopment. This type of labelling customarily follows on from some narrower interest; either in a particular region (for example Africa, Asia, Latin America); or in a particular place (e.g. Nigeria, Brazil, China); or...

The Internet and Political Activism in Britain

This study focuses on the capacity of the Internet for strengthening political activism. The first part summarizes debates about these issues in the previous literature. This study starts from the premise that political activism is a multidimensional phenomenon and that we need to understand how different channels of participation relate to the social and political characteristics of the online...

Year-Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland

Official Year Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland

This well-known annual is the eighteenth issue, ! and during this period it has earned the reputa! tion of being an accurate and concise review of the history, organisation and conditions of membership of the various scientific aud learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. It is compiled from data furnished bv the societies themselves, and each year chronicles the work done by each societ...