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. recorded his impressions of his visits in the 1830s in the writings which have been published as Journeys to England and Ireland (1958); later distinguished examples of the genre include J. B. Priestley's English Journey ...
Krishan Kumar. recorded his impressions of his visits in the 1830s in the writings which have been published as Journeys to England and Ireland (1958); later distinguished examples of the genre include J. B. Priestley's English Journey ...
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Krishan Kumar. also refers to those English or British people who spent most of their working lives in India during the British Raj – an 'Anglo Indian colonel', for example. Most multifacetedof allis 'AngloSaxon'. The OED recordsa ...
Krishan Kumar. also refers to those English or British people who spent most of their working lives in India during the British Raj – an 'Anglo Indian colonel', for example. Most multifacetedof allis 'AngloSaxon'. The OED recordsa ...
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Krishan Kumar. and 'modernizing' role was replaced by a more critical account which emphasized dependence, inequality and exploitation in the relations between core and periphery; but it did nothing to shake the impression thatBritish ...
Krishan Kumar. and 'modernizing' role was replaced by a more critical account which emphasized dependence, inequality and exploitation in the relations between core and periphery; but it did nothing to shake the impression thatBritish ...
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... ). There has been a magnificent reinterpretation of 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 ...
... ). There has been a magnificent reinterpretation of 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 ...
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Krishan Kumar. It was the cultural, not the political, idea of the nation that had the most successful career in the later nineteenth century. This was largely because there were so many nations without independent statehood, atatime when ...
Krishan Kumar. It was the cultural, not the political, idea of the nation that had the most successful career in the later nineteenth century. This was largely because there were so many nations without independent statehood, atatime when ...
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