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In recent years, particularly since devolution in the UK, there have been many attempts to identify what exactly Englishness really involves. In this major contribution to debates about English identity, leading cultural theorist Robert J. C. Young argues that the recent uncertainty about the nature of the English arises from more than just the challenges of devolution, or even the end of empire. It is rather the long-term result of the fact that in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Englishness was never really about England, the place, its essence, or its national character, at all. It was rather developed as a form of 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 by anyone anywhere - which is why the most English Englishmen have rarely been English. This construction was so powerful that even today the English diaspora continues to act together at a political level around the globe. In England itself, this meant that being English was characterized through an open structure of inclusion rather than exclusion, which helps to explain why the country has been able to transform itself into one of the most successful of modern multicultural nations.
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- Title Idea of English Ethnicity
- Author Young
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Edition and ed.
- Pages 312
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons
- Date 2007-12-03
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781405101288 / 1405101288
- Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.75 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects National characteristics, English, Ethnology - Great Britain
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007008016
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.821
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2008, Page 44
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