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The Politics of English Nationhood (Paperback)
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Winner of the Political Studies Association WJM MacKenzie Prize for
best book of 2014 The Politics of English Nationhood supplies the
first comprehensive overview of the evidence, research and major
arguments relating to the revival of Englishness, exploring its
varied, and often overlooked, political ramifications and
dimensions. It examines the difficulties which the major political
parties have encountered in dealing with 'the English question'
against the backdrop of the diminishing hold of established ideas
of British government and national identity in the final years of
the last century. And it explores a range of factors-including
insecurities generated by economic change, Euroscepticism, and a
growing sense of cultural anxiety - which helped make the renewal
of Englishness appealing and imperative, prior to the introduction
of devolution by the first Blair government, a policy which also
gave this process a further impetus. The book therefore provides a
powerful challenge to the two established orthodoxies in this area.
These either maintain that the English are dispositionally unable
to assert their own nationhood outside the framework of the British
state, or point to the supposed resurgence of a resentful and
reactive sense of English nationalism. This volume instead
demonstrates that a renewed, resonant and internally divided sense
of English nationhood is apparent across the lines of class,
geography, age, and ethnicity. And it identifies several distinct
strands of national identity that have emerged in this period,
contrasting the appearance of populist and resentful forms of
English nationalism with an embedded and deeply rooted sense of
conservative Englishness and attempts to reconstruct a more liberal
and civic idea of a multicultural England. This volume also
includes a wide-ranging analysis of the culturally rooted revival
of Englishness, drawing out the political dimensions and
implications of this re-emerging form of national consciousness.
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