Identity of England
By: Robert Colls.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
Subjects: National characteristics, English; England -- Civilization
Description: In this text, Robert Colls traces the constitutional, legal, racial, cultural, and geographical dimensions of Englishness from medieval times to the present day, with a particular emphasis on the last 100 years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [382]-385) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction I; title: BUILDING THE NATION; title: 1. The Law Becomes You 13; title: 2. Uniting the Kingdoms 34; title: 3. Constituting the Modern Nation 50; title: EXTENDING THE STATE; title: 4. Modern Gentlemanly Progress 69; title: 5. The Nation Over Itself 80; title: 6. Colonials 93; title: 7. Women and Workers Io8; title: 8. Loyalties 124; title: POST-IMPERIAL REFORMATION; title: 9. Forward March Halted I43; title: 10. Imagined Nation 162; title: 11. Reconstituting the Nation 177; title: Bridgehead 199; title: BUILDING THE HOMELAND; title: 12. England as A Garden 203; title: 13. Wasteland 212; title: I4. Island 225; title: I5. Natives 245; title: 16. Journeys 258; title: ABSORBING THE PEOPLE; title: 17. Celts 275; title: 18. National Properties 289; title: 19. Common People 300; title: 20. Left-over People 312; title: ENGLAND NOW; title: 21. Anarchy in the UK? 337; title: 22. Thinking With England 356; title: Conclusion 377.