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The English

a portrait of a people

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"Not so long ago, everybody knew who the English were. They were "polite, unexcitable, reserved, and had hot-water bottles instead of a sex life." As the dominant culture in a country that dominated an empire that dominated the world, they had had little need to examine themselves and ask who they were. But something has happened.".

"A new self-confidence seems to have taken hold in Wales and Scotland, while everyone tries to forge a new relationship with Europe. The English are being forced to ask what it is that makes them who they are. The Bulldog Breed ("Fearless and philistine, safe in taxis and invaluable in shipwrecks") has no place any longer.".

"The English is a probing, irreverent, and immensely colorful look at the meaning of Englishness. It asks the questions: What are the defining features of Englishness? What is behind the English obsession with games? Is there such a thing as an English race? What inviolable English traits remain to win the affection of Anglophiles, raise the ire of Anglo-critics, and pique the curiosity of Anglo-watchers here and abroad?".

"The English traces the invention of Englishness to its current crisis and concludes that, for all their characteristic gloom about themselves, the English may have developed a form of nationalism for the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.

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Overlook Press
Language
English
Pages
308

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September 30, 1999, Penguin Books Ltd
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October 19, 1998, Michael Joseph Ltd
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1998, M. Joseph
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-296) and index.
Originally published: London : Michael Joseph, 1998.

Published in
Woodstock, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
942
Library of Congress
DA118 .P35 2000, DA118.P35 2000, DA 118 P35 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 308 p. ;
Number of pages
308

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6780328M
Internet Archive
englishportraito0000paxm_h8r3
ISBN 10
1585670421
LCCN
00026080
OCLC/WorldCat
43552769
Library Thing
22280
Goodreads
1615262

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