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The Politics of English Nationhood (Hardcover)
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The Politics of English Nationhood (Hardcover)
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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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