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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Krishan Kumar. Preface. This book could have been entitled alternatively 'the enigma of English national identity'. For it attempts to answer such questions as: why does 'English nationalism' sound so strange to English ears? Why is it ...
Krishan Kumar. Preface. This book could have been entitled alternatively 'the enigma of English national identity'. For it attempts to answer such questions as: why does 'English nationalism' sound so strange to English ears? Why is it ...
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... of 'Englishness' and English national identity–let aloneanystrong expressions of English nationalism –I have felt theneedto confrontand as faras possible counterthe claims of thesescholars. The form of the bookis therefore toagood ...
... of 'Englishness' and English national identity–let aloneanystrong expressions of English nationalism –I have felt theneedto confrontand as faras possible counterthe claims of thesescholars. The form of the bookis therefore toagood ...
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... of the British Isles were invited to find a place and an identity. Chapter 7 advancesthe view that, despitethe continuation of a strong sense of Britishness expressed through an increasingly unified Britain and a common involvement in ...
... of the British Isles were invited to find a place and an identity. Chapter 7 advancesthe view that, despitethe continuation of a strong sense of Britishness expressed through an increasingly unified Britain and a common involvement in ...
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... English, and are highly sensitive to the lordly English habit of subsuming British under English. For them it is a constant reminder of what they perceive to be – rightly, English or British? The question of Englishnational identity.
... English, and are highly sensitive to the lordly English habit of subsuming British under English. For them it is a constant reminder of what they perceive to be – rightly, English or British? The question of Englishnational identity.
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Krishan Kumar. constant reminder of what they perceive to be – rightly, of course, – England's hegemony over the rest of the British Isles. One hastosay immediately thoughthat the ... of the word of an Englishman and aspires to be an English.
Krishan Kumar. constant reminder of what they perceive to be – rightly, of course, – England's hegemony over the rest of the British Isles. One hastosay immediately thoughthat the ... of the word of an Englishman and aspires to be an English.
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