The idea of Englishness: English culture, national identity and social thought

Abstract

Englishness and English national identity -- Empire and English nationalism -- English and French national identity: comparisons and contrasts -- Britain, England, and Europe: cultures in contraflow -- Negotiating English identity: Englishness, Britishness, and the future of the United Kingdom -- When was the English nation? -- Empire, nation, and national identities -- Sociology and the Englishness of English social theory -- 1066 and all that: myths of the English -- William Morris and Englishness