Wilson, Thomas M.

Dr. Thomas M. Wilson holds a Ph.D. from City University of New York in Anthropology. He currently chairs the Anthropology Department at Binghamton University.

Rural Politics in County Meath, Ireland: Ethnographic and Historical Studies

2013 0-7734-3077-6
This book studies the agrarian and political aspects of a local community in Mead County, Ireland. Based on field research this book is a careful study of how the social dimensions of the community have evolved over the last seventy years. It takes into account policies from a meta-political level down to a micro-level. This study also looks at the way politicians in Ireland make government more responsible to the needs of local communities, even though this power was largely lost by the 1970’s. It also shows the meta-political forces that shape the community.