The Identity of England

by Robert Colls

Book Overview

The English are now in need of a new sense of home and belonging, and a re-assessment of who they are. This is a history of who they were, with present needs in mind. It begins by considering how the English state created an English nation which from very early days refused to see itself simply as the state's creature. It considers also how that nation survived shattering revolutions in industry, urban living and global conflict while at the same...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199245193
• ISBN13: 9780199245192
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.8"