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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... Britain' and the 'British Empire'was a continuation, apparently, ofavery old tradition. The ethnic English, asthecore nation of the British Islesand the dominant group ofwhat became the leading industrialand imperial power in the world ...
... Britain' and the 'British Empire'was a continuation, apparently, ofavery old tradition. The ethnic English, asthecore nation of the British Islesand the dominant group ofwhat became the leading industrialand imperial power in the world ...
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Krishan Kumar. and Britain ('British democracy is less of a fraud than it sometimes appears', etc.) to conclude with the famous observation that 'England [sic] resembles a family . . . a family with the wrong members incontrol ...
Krishan Kumar. and Britain ('British democracy is less of a fraud than it sometimes appears', etc.) to conclude with the famous observation that 'England [sic] resembles a family . . . a family with the wrong members incontrol ...
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... [British history],which does notyet existand must be created, cannot be written asthe memory ofa single stateor nation oras the process by which one cameinto existence. It must beaplural history, tracing theprocesses bywhich a diversity ...
... [British history],which does notyet existand must be created, cannot be written asthe memory ofa single stateor nation oras the process by which one cameinto existence. It must beaplural history, tracing theprocesses bywhich a diversity ...
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... British nationalism in the eighteenth century in Linda Colley's Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 (1994); for the same period Gerald Newman essayed something similar for English nationalism in a pioneering work, TheRiseof English ...
... British nationalism in the eighteenth century in Linda Colley's Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 (1994); for the same period Gerald Newman essayed something similar for English nationalism in a pioneering work, TheRiseof English ...
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... British”,andithas thecharm,for the historian, of the antiquatedand theout of date.“British” was an altogether more uncomfortableterm toworkwith, hard ratherthansoft and belongingtospecific historical epochs rather than the timelessness ...
... British”,andithas thecharm,for the historian, of the antiquatedand theout of date.“British” was an altogether more uncomfortableterm toworkwith, hard ratherthansoft and belongingtospecific historical epochs rather than the timelessness ...
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