Raphael Samuel (editor) - Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity (1989): Volume I: History and Politics

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Patriotism

The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity

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.

Patriotism

The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity

Volume I
History and Politics

Edited by
Raphael Samuel

First published in 1989

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Edited by
Raphael Samuel

Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity

VOLUME I
History and Politics

First published in 1989 by Routledge

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1989 History Workshop Journal

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Patriotism: the making and unmaking of

British national identity.(History workshop series).

Vol. 1: History and politics

1. Great Britain. Patriotism, to 1987

I. Samuel, Raphael II. Series

323.65

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Patriotism: the making and unmaking of British national identity/edited by Raphael Samuel.

p. cm.(History workshop series)

Contents: v. 1. History and politics.

Includes index.

1. NationalismGreat BritainHistory. 2. NationalismEnglandHistory. 3. PatriotismGreat BritainHistory. 4. National characteristics, British. 5. National characteristics, English.

I. Samuel, Raphael. II. Series.

DA44.P38 1989

320.5 4 0941dc 19 8911366

ISBN 0-415-02772-1

ISBN 0-415-01307-0 (pbk)

Contents

Raphael Samuel

Christopher Hill

Raphael Samuel

Alun Howkins

Carolyn Steedman

Rodney Hilton

Peter Furtado

Hugh Cunningham

Richard Gott

E. Green and M. Taylor

Preben Kaarsholm

Stephen Howe

Anthony Barnett

Christopher Hill

Linda Colley

John Wolffe

Anna Davin

Anne Summers

Stella Cottrell

Logie Barrow

Madge Dresser

Anthony Barnett is the author of Iron Britannia, a study of the Falklands War and British national opinion.

Logie Barrow is Professor of History at Bremen University and author of Independent Spirits, a study of nineteenth-century spiritualism published in the History Workshop series.

Linda Colley is Associate Professor at Yale University and author of In Defiance of Oligarchy, the Tory Party 171460; she is working on a book on patriotism and national identity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Stella Cottrells chapter is drawn from her Oxford D. Phil. thesis on English perceptions of France in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Hugh Cunningham is Lecturer in History at the University of Kent, and author of, among other books and articles, The Volunteers.

Anna Davin is completing a thesis on girls in late-Victorian London. She is Visiting Professor at Binghampton University, USA, and an editor of History Workshop Journal.

Madge Dresser is Lecturer in Humanities at Bristol Polytechnic.

Peter Furtados chapter is drawn from his thesis work on seventeenth-century language.

Richard Gott is Features Editor of The Guardian and co-author (with Martin Gilbert) of The Appeasers.

Ewan Green is Fellow and Tutor in History of St Hughs College, Oxford.

Christopher Hill is formerly Master of Balliol College, Oxford; his most recent work on seventeenth-century history is a study of Bunyan.

Rodney Hilton is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham and a founder editor of Past and Present.

Stephen Howe is Tutor in Politics at Ruskin College, Oxford; his book, Anti-Colonialism in British Politics, 193964, is being published by Oxford University Press.

Alun Howkins is Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex and an editor of History Workshop Journal. His Poor Labouring Men, a study of the Norfolk farm labourer, is an earlier volume in the History Workshop series.

Preben Kaarsholm is Lecturer in History at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Raphael Samuel is Tutor in History at Ruskin College, Oxford, and an editor of History Workshop Journal.

Carolyn Steedman is Senior Lecturer in Arts Education, University of Warwick, and author of, among other books, The Tidy House and Landscape for a Good Woman. She is an editor of History Workshop Journal.

Anne Summers is Research Fellow at the Wellcome Institute for the Study of Medicine, Oxford, and an editor of