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The English National Character - The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair (Paperback)
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The English National Character - The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair (Paperback)
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What kind of people are 'the English' - what are the characteristic
traits and behaviour that distinguish them from other people? This
highly original and wide-ranging book traces the surprisingly
varied history of ideas amongst the English about their own
'national character' over the past two centuries. Two hundred years
ago, the very idea of a 'national character' was novel and not very
respectable. In our own time, when we like to think of ourselves as
unique individuals, it's hard again to think of a 'national
character' that binds us into a national unit. But in between, as
Britain became a democracy, 'national character' became part of the
national common sense, in depictions of 'John Bull' and his
twentieth-century successor, the 'Little Man', and in a set of
stereotypes about English traits, follies and foibles. Far from
being shy of talking about themselves, the English have produced
over the past two hundred years a vast outpouring of material on
what it means to be English - material on which this book draws:
lectures, sermons, political speeches, journalism, popular and
scholarly books, poems and novels and films, satires and cartoons
and caricatures, as well as the most up-to-the minute social
science and public opinion research. In this comprehensive, lucidly
argued account of the history of thinking about the English
national character, one of the leading historians of modern Britain
challenges long-held assumptions and familiar stereotypes and
offers an entirely new perspective on what it means to think of
oneself as being English.
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