| Description |
xxxi, 468 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Norman Davies -- Introduction / Helen Brocklehurst and Robert Phillips -- Pt. I. Historiographical Britains -- 1. British History and the Generation of Change / Keith Robbins -- 2. Four Nations History in Perspective / Hugh Kearney -- 3. The Changing Context of Welsh Historiography, 1890-2000 / Neil Evans -- 4. Enlightenment Historiography and its Legacy: Plurality, Authority and Power / Murray G. H. Pittock -- 5. Three Fables of Britishness / Arthur Aughey -- Pt. II. British Identity: Change and Continuity -- 6. Perspectives on Irish Identity, Nationalism and Ethnicity / Alan O'Day -- 7. Redefining Britannia: The Role of 'Marginal' Generations in Reshaping British National Consciousness / June Edmunds -- 8. Britishness out of Immigration and Anti-Racism / Tariq Modood -- 9. The Place of Ulster: Alternative Loyalist Identities / Brian Graham -- 10. Civic or Ethnic? The Evolution of Britishness and Scottishness / Atsuko Ichijo -- 11. Britain as Island: National Identity and the Sea / Ken Lunn and Ann Day -- 12. The Island Garden: English Landscape and British Identity / David Lowenthal -- Pt. III. British Identity: Historical and Political Narratives -- 13. 'Four Nations Prehistory': Cores and Archetypes in the Writing of Prehistory / Gordon J. Barclay -- 14. Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives, History and National Identity in Late Medieval England / Katherine J. Lewis -- 15. Antithesis: How to Create a Nation / Sarah Barber -- 16. 449 and All That: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Interpretations of the 'Anglo-Saxon Invasion' of Britain / Richard Floyd -- 17. Elite Power and British Political Identity: The Irish Elite in the 'British World' / Jennifer Ridden -- 18. Nationalism and National Identity in British Politics, c.1880s to 1914 / Paul Ward -- Pt. IV. Empire and its Legacies -- 19. Britain and the Other: The Archaeology of Imperialism / Margarita Diaz-Andreu -- 20. The End of Empire and the Fate of Britishness / Stuart Ward -- 21. Empire and British National Identity, 1815-1914 / Bernard Porter -- 22. Lessons in Englishness and Empire, c.1880-1914: Further Thoughts on the English/British Conundrum / Peter Yeandle -- Pt. V. Heritage, Commemoration and Trauma -- 23. The Youth of Our Nation in Symbol: Making and Remaking the Masculine Ideal in the Era of the Two World Wars / Michael Paris -- 24. National Identity, Re-enactment and Conflict: A Usable Past? / Adam I. P. Smith -- 25. (D)evolving Identities: Changing Representations of National Identity in Scottish and Welsh Museums / Rhiannon Mason -- 26. White Past, Multicultural Present: Heritage and National Stories / Jo Littler and Roshi Naidoo -- 27. Rethinking 'Footnotes' to British/Irish History: Vernacular Historiographies, Folk Commemoration and 'Porous Meta-narratives' / Guy Beiner -- 28. Ulster-British Identity and the Cultural Memory of 'Ethnic Cleansing' on the Northern Ireland Border / Graham Dawson -- Pt. VI. English Stories and 'the' National Past? -- 29. 'I Was Meditating about England': The Importance of Rural England for the Construction of 'Englishness' / Christine Berberich -- 30. 'You're History!' Media Representation, Nationhood and the National Past / Helen Brocklehurst and Robert Phillips -- 31. Heroes and Demons as Historical Bookmarks in the English Popular Press / Martin Conboy |
| Summary |
"This contribution examines the relationship between history and national identity in Britain through over 30 essays by leading historians and theorists. With contributions from Tariq Modood, Bernard Porter, Keith Robbins and Alan O'Day, this comprehensive volume provides cutting edge research, and addresses questions such as: how has the history of Britain been 'reimagined' over the past twenty-five years?; what have been the roles of such diverse factors as nature, the sea, multinationalism or gender in shaping British nationhood?; what can we learn about the British national identity from the experience of Ireland?; and in what ways has history contributed to debates over British devolution?"--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Nationalism and historiography.
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Nationalism -- Great Britain -- Historiography.
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National characteristics, British -- Historiography.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100284
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| Author |
Phillips, Robert, 1959-
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Brocklehurst, Helen, 1974-
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| LC no. |
2003058114 |
| ISBN |
1403912963 : |
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