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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... revolutionary pasts of America and France. Similarly, when Habermas, following German reunification, urges hisfellow Germansto eschew ideasofthe 'prepolitical' community of shared memories and historical experience, and attach ...
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... Revolution,its members and the community they form possess antecedents,a prehistory .. . andhence asense ofshared experience thatmarks that peopleofffrom others andendows itwitha feeling of belonging.' Frequently that experience lendsto ...
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... Revolution. The Jews were supposedly 'emancipated' from their ethnic attachments so that they could be integrated, as 'rational' and secular individuals, into the civic lifeofrepublican France. Smith arguesthat,in abandoning their ...
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... Revolution and reached its peak in the later nineteenth century? Or should they be called something else – 'patriotism' (Viroli 1995, Grainger 1986: 11), 'tribal consciousness', 'national pride' or some other form of 'protonationalism ...
... Revolution and reached its peak in the later nineteenth century? Or should they be called something else – 'patriotism' (Viroli 1995, Grainger 1986: 11), 'tribal consciousness', 'national pride' or some other form of 'protonationalism ...
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... Revolution gave way toan imperialistic, exclusivist, nationalism. Robespierre protested against the nationalism that he thought implicit inthe Girondins' 1793 version of the Declarationof the Rights ofMan. 'Itwould seem that your ...
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