1. Englishness and English national identity -- 2. Empire and English nationalism -- 3. English and French national identity : comparisons and contrasts -- 4. Britain, England, and Europe : cultures in contraflow -- 5. Negotiating English identity : Englishness, Britishness, and…
The English Question is becoming one of the most urgent questions in modern British politics. What has been lacking is a single text which puts into perspective the politics of modern Englishness, providing an explanatory framework which makes sense of its contemporary significa…
Provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a perspective on those debates. This book offers readers with an interpretation of the significant literature on The English Question, and also enables them to make sense of the political, historical and cultural…
The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a unique perspective on those debates. Not only does the book provide readers with ready access to and interpretation of the significant literature on the English Question, it also ena…
Englishness is an idea, a consciousness and a proto-nationalism. There is no English state within the United Kingdom, no English passport, Parliament or currency, nor any immediate prospect of any. That does not mean that England lacks an identity, although English nationalism, …
Between 1650 and 1850 perceptions of the English changed as a nation of supposed barbarians evolved into a world power. This study traces the evolution of the so-called English national character through the impressions of foreign observers.