The Idea of Englishness: English Culture, National Identity and Social Thought

by Krishan Kumar

Book Overview

Ideas of Englishness, and of the English nation, have become a matter of renewed interest in recent years as a result of threats to the integrity of the United Kingdom and the perceived rise of that unusual thing, English nationalism. Interrogating the idea of an English nation, and of how that might compare with other concepts of nationhood, this book's wide-ranging, comparative and historical approach to understanding the particular nature of Englishness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472461959
• ISBN13: 9781472461957
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"