The politics of Englishness - Aughey, Arthur (Manchester University Press, 2007)
9780719068720; 9780719068720; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Put out more flags; Part I Legends of Englishness; 2 An absorptive patria; 3 The English idiom; 4 Dead centre of inertia; Part II Anxieties of Englishness; 5 English before they were British; 6 England.co.uk; 7 Slow alchemy of centuries; Part III Locations of Englishness; 8 Region: resources of identity; 9 Europe: a necessary context; 10 England: a British relationship; 11 Put out even more flags; References; Index
The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a unique perspective on those debates. Not only does the book provide readers with ready access to and interpretation of the significant literature on the English Question, it also enables them to make sense of the political, historical and cultural factors which constitute that question. The book addresses the condition of England in three interrelated parts. The first looks at traditional narratives of the English polity and reads them as variations of a legend of political Englishness, of England a