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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... onthe argument ofPatrick Wormald, Adrian Hastings and othersthat an English national identity was formulated as early as the eight century, the time of Bede, and that by the fourteenth century a fully developed English national ...
... onthe argument ofPatrick Wormald, Adrian Hastings and othersthat an English national identity was formulated as early as the eight century, the time of Bede, and that by the fourteenth century a fully developed English national ...
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... on the Right, the English remain fatally handicapped by the whole history that I have traced – a history, that is, ofastudied disavowalof nationalism and a reluctance to reflect on theircharacter as a nation.It is this thatmakes current ...
... on the Right, the English remain fatally handicapped by the whole history that I have traced – a history, that is, ofastudied disavowalof nationalism and a reluctance to reflect on theircharacter as a nation.It is this thatmakes current ...
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... on the contrary is 'England' so glowingly sonorous (andnot, letitbesaid, justto the English)?And if neither 'England' seems to suit, whatelse? The 'Britain'nor mystery isdeepened, not diminished,bythe accurate observation that none of ...
... on the contrary is 'England' so glowingly sonorous (andnot, letitbesaid, justto the English)?And if neither 'England' seems to suit, whatelse? The 'Britain'nor mystery isdeepened, not diminished,bythe accurate observation that none of ...
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... onthe government of Britain is called The English Constitution (1867). The OED's report of 1891 on the established usage of the time perhaps underplayed its inflationary tendency: 'England: the southernpart oftheisland of Great Britain ...
... onthe government of Britain is called The English Constitution (1867). The OED's report of 1891 on the established usage of the time perhaps underplayed its inflationary tendency: 'England: the southernpart oftheisland of Great Britain ...
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... 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 his visits in the 1830s in.
... 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 his visits in the 1830s in.
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