ISBN:
9780511550058
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0521777364
,
0521771889
,
9780521771887
,
9780521777360
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 367 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Series Statement:
Cambridge cultural social studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kumar, Krishan, 1942 - The making of English national identity
DDC:
942
Keywords:
National characteristics, English History.
;
Nationalism England
;
History.
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Imperialism History.
;
Imperialism History
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Nationalism History
;
National characteristics, English History
;
National characteristics, English ; History
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Nationalism ; England ; History
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Imperialism ; History
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England ; Civilization
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England Civilization.
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England Civilization
;
England
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Politische Identität
;
Großbritannien
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Politische Identität
;
England
;
Nationalcharakter
;
Großbritannien
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so difficult to say who they are? The Making of English National Identity, first published in 2003, is a fascinating exploration of Englishness and what it means to be English. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary theory, Krishan Kumar examines the rise of English nationalism and issues of race and ethnicity from earliest times to the present day. He argues that the long history of the English as an imperial people has, as with other imperial people like the Russians and the Austrians, developed a sense of missionary nationalism which in the interests of unity and empire has necessitated the repression of ordinary expressions of nationalism. Professor Kumar's lively and provocative approach challenges readers to reconsider their pre-conceptions about national identity and who the English really are.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 English or British? The question of English national identity; A natural confusion; Britain and the British; England and the English; British studies: in search of the national identity; 2 Nations and nationalism: civic, ethnic and imperial; English nationalism - a peculiar thing?; Political and cultural nations; The ambiguities of nationhood; Nations before nationalism, nationalism before nations; Missionary nationalism; Nation and empire; Britishness and Englishness; 3 When was England?; Understanding the United Kingdom in time
Description / Table of Contents:
'Engla Land': the meaning of England and the Englishin Anglo-Saxon timesThe English nation from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries; 'Englishing the nation'?; 4 The first English Empire; The English and others; Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Britons; Celts and English; Conquest and colonization:Wales; Conquest and colonization: Ireland; Anglicization by stealth: the Scottish case; 5 The English nation: parent of nationalism?; A sixteenth-century nationalism?; England: the first nation?; The Protestant nation; Protestantism and nationalism; Literary Englishness
Description / Table of Contents:
6 The making of British identityOne nation divided; Towards Great Britain; Britons:Welsh and Irish; North Britons; Britishness and Englishness; Culture and religion: the Protestant nation; Society, economy and empire; A British nation?; 7 The moment of Englishness; English nationalism: the dog that did not bark?; England and the 'British Empire in Europe'; Empire and English identity; The need for nationhood; The discovery of Englishness; Englishness as history, language and literature; 8 The English and the British today; Forever England; The persistence of Britishness
Description / Table of Contents:
The break-up of Britain?Englishness embattled; English nationalism; England, Britain and Europe; Notes; List of references; Index
Note:
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511550058
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