The Making of English National IdentityCambridge University Press, 2003 M03 13 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. |
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... literature',afavourite form in the seventeenth andeighteenth centuries, inwhich the writer journeyed through the kingdom and reported on the condition and ways of the inhabitants. Alexis de Tocqueville thus recorded his impressions of ...
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... literature. Because ofitssubliminal association withthe countryside– the“real”England – it conjured up images ofrusticity, chronicles of ancient sunlight.“English” issmaller and gentler than “British”,andithas thecharm,for the historian ...
... literature. Because ofitssubliminal association withthe countryside– the“real”England – it conjured up images ofrusticity, chronicles of ancient sunlight.“English” issmaller and gentler than “British”,andithas thecharm,for the historian ...
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... literature on nationalism written since 1972, Gerald Newman came up with two essays 'in rather obscure journals' dealing withEnglish or British nationalism; for German orIrish nationalismthere weremore than seventyitems apiece (Newman ...
... literature on nationalism written since 1972, Gerald Newman came up with two essays 'in rather obscure journals' dealing withEnglish or British nationalism; for German orIrish nationalismthere weremore than seventyitems apiece (Newman ...
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... literature isnotof course the only possible source of material for reflection. One might, in searchof further illumination,goto the writingsof nonacademics. Thereisas noted earliera veritable treasuryof writing onEnglishness and the ...
... literature isnotof course the only possible source of material for reflection. One might, in searchof further illumination,goto the writingsof nonacademics. Thereisas noted earliera veritable treasuryof writing onEnglishness and the ...
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... (Meinecke 1970:10).A further glosson the culturalnation sawitasbound togethermainly by'a standard language, acommon literature, anda common religion'. Meinecke was aware of the controversies surrounding this well known.
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