English or British? The question of English national identity -- Nations and nationalism: civic, ethnic and imperial -- When was England? -- The first English empire -- The English nation: parent of nationalism? -- The making of British identity -- The moment of Englishness -- The English and the British today
Summary
Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so hard to say who they are? This exploration of Englishness and what it means to be English draws on historical, sociological and literary theory
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-352) and index
