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Richard Overy (December 3) makes a superficially telling point about the Swinging Sixties to rebut my claim that the Second World War was a disaster for London stretching forward at [...]

CHARLES BOOTH'S LONDON POVERTY MAPS MARY S. MORGAN, EDITOR 288pp. Thames and Hudson. 49.95 [pounds sterling] (US $100). CHARLES BOOTH'S COLOUR-CODED poverty maps of London have achieved celebrity status. They [...]

This article discusses the 1933 translation by Risteárd Ó Foghludha of Louis Hémon’s 1916 novel, Maria Chapdelaine, in the context of early attempts on the part of An Gúm, a branch of the Irish Department of Education, to build a readership in Irish partially via the translation of literary classics from around the world into the Irish language. Key considerations here are arguments about typeface, the use of neologisms and dialectal expressions, and contemporary interventions into the standardisation of Irish, such as caint na ndaoine (‘speech of the people’) and An Caighdeán Oifigiúil (‘The Official Standard’). The 1933 text is also interesting for the ways in which it illustrates certain aspects of recent work in translation theory in both French and Irish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LET ME TAKE YOU BY THE HAND True tales from London's streets JENNIFER KAVANAGH 416pp. Little, Brown. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. 'Yes, I'm here every day, Monday to Friday, one till [...]

It is not just book-burning that we should lament (James Waddell's review of Richard Ovenden, May 21). In the spring of 1943, a wartime paper shortage in Britain led to [...]

Survey of London: Whitechapel: 2 vols. The Survey has now turned its attention to perhaps London's most notorious parish, Whitechapel. Guillery suggests that immigration from overseas has shaped Whitechapel more and for longer than any other part of London, and he is surely right (10). [Extracted from the article]

Prompted by two recent articles in European Review about the place of Islam in Europe, this article argues for the importance of considering the variants of Islam in Europe that are autochthonous as opposed to connected with migration or immigration. The article discusses the specifics of the Crimean Tatars, Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania, and the Muslims of Georgia by way of illustrating how the issues around European Islam are far from being a marginal curiosity and, in fact, point to key issues in continental culture and politics in the twenty-first century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the history of Irish cinema, John Ford's The Quiet Man (1954) occupies a central although sometimes awkward place. In her 2004 book Irish National Cinema (whose cover is a [...]

'I was born near Lyon, so the influence of the Lumieres is felt.' --Raymond Depardon, in interview with Jay Kuehner (35) (1) Even though his reputation in France is primarily [...]

LONDON'S WEST END Creating the pleasure district, 1800-1914 ROHAN McWILLIAM 369pp. Oxford University Press. 30 [pounds sterling]. AROUND 1862, George R. Sims chaperoned his mother on a visit to the [...]

Abstract Canadian assessments of First Nation and Aboriginal education lack any real modelling of reasons for the particular patterns of attainment--it is this void that we wish to fill. This [...]

Irish literature exists as a dual entity. It was composed in two languages. Thomas Kinsella, The Dual Tradition MY TITLE HERE IS AN HOMAGE TO E. D. BLODGETT'S 1988 essay [...]

ABSTRACT Since many students cannot afford the expense of international travel, creative and active learning methods are needed to help students experience the increased awareness that results from exposure to [...]

'The modernist does not commit himself. He considers, and is critical.' --Douwe Fokkema and Elrud Ibsch (3) 'Critics who vehemently attack modernism for being ahistorical, on grounds of its preoccupation [...]

En s' appuyant sur les donn,es du Fichier de microdonn,es a grande diffusion (FMGD) de 1996 sur les individus, cet article examine l'activit, sur le march, du travail des femmes au Canada en mettant l'accent sur les effets du statut familial et de la structure du m,nage pour d,terminer si ces facteurs ont des r,ponses ,lastiques similaires chez les femmes autochtones et non autochtones. Nous avons trouv, que cette activit, varie largement en fonction du statut d'autochtone. En g,n,ral, les Indiens de plein droit avaient moins de chances de trouver un emploi que les autres autochtones ou les non-autochtones. Alors que le niveau d'instruction, la pr,sence d'enfants mineurs et la monoparentalit, semblaient associ,s a une probabilit, plus basse d'emploi, des diff,rences significatives en fonction du statut d'autochtone ont ,t, d,cel,es. Les r,percussions sur l'emploi du niveau d'instruction se sont r,v,l,es plus fortes chez les Indiens de plein droit. Using data from the 1996 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF) on individuals, this paper examines labour force activity of women in Canada, focussing on the effects of familial status and household structure to determine whether these factors have similar elasticities among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women. We found that labour force activity varied greatly by Aboriginal Status. In general, Registered Indians were less likely to be employed but more likely to be unemployed than Other Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals. While lower educational attainment, presence of minor children and lone parenthood were found to be associated with a lower likelihood of being employed, significant differences by Aboriginal Status were found. The effect of educational attainment on employment was found to be higher among Registered Indians., AS LEVESQUE ET AL. (2001: 13) WRITE, '...scientists in Canada and Quebec have paid little attention to date on the living and working conditions of Aboriginal women.' The present study [...]

Without films in Irish all the work done for the language in the schools, on the radio and by voluntary organisations is doomed to ultimate failure no matter how effectively [...]

Cet article pose trois questions 1) Pourquoi etudier les inegalites entre les autochtones? 2) Quel est l'ecart entre les salaires et les revenus de la population canadienne en general et [...]

This article compares managed care organizations in the United States and British Columbia. The authors, analyzing data from group interviews conducted with nurses in British Columbia and California, argue managed care in both countries does not live up to its promises of more efficient and cheaper health care, and maintain medical care is rationed by early discharge policies and staff reduction.