British Historians and National Identity
Author : Anthony Leon Brundage
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Release : 2024-10-14
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ISBN : 9781032924854
Author : Anthony Leon Brundage
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ISBN : 9781032924854
Author : Anthony Brundage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781848935396
Can historians shape national identity and how does this change over time? Two eminent scholars of historiography examine the concept of national identity through the medium of the key multi-volume histories of the last two hundred years. Starting with Hume’ ; s History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 (1754– ; 62), Brundage and Cosgrove devote separate chapters to the work of Catharine Macaulay, John Lingard, Henry Hallam, Thomas Babington Macaulay, James Anthony Froude, Edward Freeman, William Stubbs, John Richard Green, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, George Macaulay Trevelyan and Winston Churchill. The work of these writers had a wide readership and an even greater influence by becoming the authorities on which other authors based the textbooks used by succeeding generations of British children. By contemporary standards many of these historians’ ; conclusions have not endured but their impact on how the British view themselves still remains.
Author : Alexander Murdoch
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780333693322
Author : Krishan Kumar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521777360
Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so difficult to say who they are? The Making of English National Identity, first published in 2003, is a fascinating exploration of Englishness and what it means to be English. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary theory, Krishan Kumar examines the rise of English nationalism and issues of race and ethnicity from earliest times to the present day. He argues that the long history of the English as an imperial people has, as with other imperial people like the Russians and the Austrians, developed a sense of missionary nationalism which in the interests of unity and empire has necessitated the repression of ordinary expressions of nationalism. Professor Kumar's lively and provocative approach challenges readers to reconsider their pre-conceptions about national identity and who the English really are.
Author : Anthony Leon Brundage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317317114
Two eminent scholars of historiography examine the concept of national identity through the key multi-volume histories of the last two hundred years. Starting with Hume’s History of England (1754–62), they explore the work of British historians whose work had a popular readership and an influence on succeeding generations of British children.
Author : Anthony Brundage
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804756860
This book examines the prominent role played by constitutional history from 1870 to 1960 in the creation of a positive sense of identity for Britain and the United States.
Author : Helen Brocklehurst
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403912961
This volume examines the relationship between history and national identity in Britain through over 30 essays by leading historians. With contributions from Tariq Modood, Bernard Porter, Keith Robbins and Alan O'Day, among others, this comprehensive study provides cutting-edge research and addresses questions such as: how has the history of Britain been re-imagined since the 1970s?; what has been the role of such diverse factors as nature, the sea, multi-nationalism or gender in shaping British nationhood?; what can we learn about national identity from the experience of Ireland?; and what ways has history contributed to debates over British devolution?
Author : Raphael Samuel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1315450542
First published in 1989, this is the first of three volumes exploring the changing notions of patriotism in British life from the thirteenth century to the late twentieth century and constitutes an attempt to come to terms with the power of the national idea through a historically informed critique. This volume deals with the role of politics, history, religion, imperialism and race in the formation of English nationalism. In chapters dealing with a wide range of topics, the contributors demystify the prevailing conceptions of nationalism, suggesting ‘the nation’ has always been a contested idea, and only one of a number of competing images of collectivity.
Author : Linda E. Connors
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1317090071
Examining the complex and rapidly expanding world of print culture and reading in the nineteenth century, Linda E. Connors and Mary Lu MacDonald show how periodicals in the United Kingdom and British North America shaped and promoted ideals about national identity. In the wake of the Napoleonic wars, periodicals instilled in readers an awareness of cultures, places and ways of living outside their own experience, while also proffering messages about what it meant to be British. The authors cast a wide net, showing the importance of periodicals for understanding political and economic life, faith and religion, the world of women and children, the idea of progress as a transcendent ideology, and the relationships between the parts (for example, Scotland or Nova Scotia) and the whole (Great Britain). Analyzing the British identity of expatriate nineteenth-century Britons in North America alongside their counterparts in Great Britain enables insights into whether residents were encouraged to identify themselves by country of residence, by country of birth, or by their newly acquired understanding of a broader whole. Enhanced by a succinct and informative catalogue of data, including editorship and price, about the periodicals analyzed, this study provides a striking history of the era and brings clarity to the perception of British transcendence and progress that emerged with such force and appeal after 1815.
Author : Thomas Hajkowski
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1847797415
Examining the ways in which the BBC constructed and disseminated British national identity during the second quarter of the twentieth century, this book is the first study that focuses in a comprehensive way on how the BBC, through its radio programs, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The BBC and national identity in Britain offers a revision of histories of regional broadcasting in Britain that interpret it as a form of cultural imperialism. The regional organization of the BBC, and the news and creative programming designed specifically for regional listeners, reinforced the cultural and historical distinctiveness of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The BBC anticipated, and perhaps encouraged, the development of the hybrid “dual identities” characteristic of contemporary Britain. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of nationalism and national identity, British imperialism, mass media and media history, and the “four nations” approach to British history.