PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction: Reading the Nation -- Elementary School Culture and National Identity; 1 Citizen Authors and the Language of Citizenship; 2 The Syntax of National Identity: The Liberal Master Narrative; 3 Ethnicity and National Belonging; 4 Imagining the Racial 'Other' Within; 5 'The Home of the Race': The Familial Imaginings of National Identity in Elementary Schooling; 6 Narratives and Rituals of National Belonging; Conclusion: 'For Home, Country, and Race'; APPENDICES; A: READING-BOOK REQUISITION AND APPROVAL PRACTICES
B: READING-BOOK PUBLICATION FIGURES FOR SELECTED PUBLISHERSC: STATISTICAL BREAKDOWN OF READER SAMPLE USED IN THIS STUDY; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary
A demonstration of how a specific ideal of national heritage was consciously nurtured by England's elementary school system at the turn of the century. Implicit within this ideal was an ideology that reinforced gender, class, and race distinctions
