British Historians And National Identity

Author : Anthony Leon Brundage
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317317106
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Historians and National Identity written by Anthony Leon Brundage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Thomas Hajkowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526118844
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The BBC and National Identity in Britain, 1922-53 written by Thomas Hajkowski and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the BBC's desire to construct a strong, unitary sense of Britishness (through empire and the monarchy) with a thorough consideration of the broadcasting in the non-English parts of the United Kingdom.

Author : Krishan Kumar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107320097
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of English National Identity written by Krishan Kumar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-13 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alexander Murdoch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349272353
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British History, 1660-1832 written by Alexander Murdoch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an interpretative study of the idea of Britain, examining the transformation of a sectarian concept into an imperial ideology forged during a period of sustained warfare in Europe and ever-expanding areas beyond Europe during the second half of the Eighteenth century. It seeks to examine constitutional history from a non-Anglocentric perspective and to relocate it to historiographical developments in Social History and the History of Ideas. Based on more than 25 years of research, it seeks to examine critically a concept which increasingly has come under public debate during the past decade.

Author : Thomas Hajkowski
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847797415
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922–53 written by Thomas Hajkowski and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Helen Brocklehurst
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403912961
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History, Nationhood and the Question of Britain written by Helen Brocklehurst and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alexander Murdoch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333693322
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British History, 1660-1832 written by Alexander Murdoch and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Irene Morra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135048959
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britishness, Popular Music, and National Identity written by Irene Morra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a major exploration of the social and cultural importance of popular music to contemporary celebrations of Britishness. Rather than providing a history of popular music or an itemization of indigenous musical qualities, it exposes the influential cultural and nationalist rhetoric around popular music and the dissemination of that rhetoric in various forms. Since the 1960s, popular music has surpassed literature to become the dominant signifier of modern British culture and identity. This position has been enforced in popular culture, literature, news and music media, political rhetoric -- and in much popular music itself, which has become increasingly self-conscious about the expectation that music both articulate and manifest the inherent values and identity of the modern nation. This study examines the implications of such practices and the various social and cultural values they construct and enforce. It identifies two dominant, conflicting constructions around popular music: music as the voice of an indigenous English ‘folk’, and music as the voice of a re-emergent British Empire. These constructions are not only contradictory but also exclusive, prescribing a social and musical identity for the nation that ignores its greater creative, national, and cultural diversity. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive critique of an extremely powerful discourse in England that today informs dominant formulations of English and British national identity, history, and culture.

Author : Patrick Finney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136932925
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering the Road to World War Two written by Patrick Finney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘This is comparative history on a grand scale, skilfully analysing complex national debates and drawing major conclusions without ever losing the necessary nuances of interpretation.’ Stefan Berger, University of Manchester, UK Remembering the Road to World War Two is a broad and comparative international survey of the historiography of the origins of the Second World War. It explores how, in the case of each of the major combatant countries, historical writing on the origins of the Second World War has been inextricably entwined with debates over national identity and collective memory. Spanning seven case studies – the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain, the United States and Japan – Patrick Finney proposes a fresh approach to the politics of historiography. This provocative volume discusses the political, cultural, disciplinary and archival factors which have contributed to the evolving construction of historical interpretations. It analyses the complex and multi-faceted relationships between texts about the origins of the war, the negotiation of conceptions of national identity and unfolding processes of war remembrance. Offering an innovative perspective on international history and enriching the literature on collective memory, this book will prove fascinating reading for all students of the Second World War.

Author : Anthony Brundage
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804756860
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Tradition written by Anthony Brundage and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.