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The Idea of English Ethnicity (Blackwell Manifestos) Book

In recent years there have been many attempts to identify exactly what constitutes Englishness. In this major contribution to the debate, Young argues that Englishness was developed as a form of long-distance nationalism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It served as an ethnic identity for those who were precisely not English, but rather made up the English diaspora around the world: Americans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans. Englishness was constructed as a translatable quality or identity that could be taken on or appropriated anywhere.Read More

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    In this major contribution to debates about English identity, leading theorist Robert J.C. Young argues that Englishness was never really about England at all. In the nineteenth century, it was rather developed as a form of long-distance identity for the English diaspora around the world. Young shows how the effects of this continue to reverberate today, nationally and globally.


    • Written by an internationally established theorist, whose work has been translated into 20 languages
    • Shows how potent the idea of Englishness is
    • Helps to explain why the UK continues to act as if it has a â??special relationshipâ?? to the US
    • Helps to explain why the UK is so successfully multicultural
    • Part of the prestigious Blackwell Manifestos series

  • 1405101288
  • 9781405101288
  • Robert JC Young
  • 12 December 2007
  • Wiley-Blackwell
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 312
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