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The Politics of English Nationhood

Michael Kenny

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Description for The Politics of English Nationhood Paperback. The Politics of English Nationhood provides a comprehensive overview of the available evidence and major arguments relating to the revival of Englishness in the last two decades. It examines the challenges which the mainstream political parties have encountered in dealing with 'the English question'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1; JPA; JPHF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 256 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488.
Winner of the Political Studies Association WJM MacKenzie Prize for best book of 2014 The Politics of English Nationhood supplies the first comprehensive overview of the evidence, research and major arguments relating to the revival of Englishness, exploring its varied, and often overlooked, political ramifications and dimensions. It examines the difficulties which the major political parties have encountered in dealing with 'the English question' against the backdrop of the diminishing hold of established ideas of British government and national identity in the final years of the last century. And it explores a range of factors--including insecurities generated by ... Read more

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Publisher

Oxford University Press

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2017

Condition

New

Weight

487g

Number of Pages

320

Place of Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom

ISBN

9780198778721

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V9780198778721

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About Michael Kenny

Michael Kenny is the recipient of a Major Research Fellowship awarded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2012-14. He has previously worked as Lecturer in Politics at Queen's University, Belfast, and was Professor, and Head of Department, in Politics at the University of Sheffield, and is currently a Research Associate at the Institute for Public Policy Research. He is a Professor of ... Read more

Reviews for The Politics of English Nationhood

The Politics of English Nationhood is an important book in the context of an uncertain English national future, and one that will appeal both a specialist audience and undergraduates on a variety of degree courses.
Samy Pryke, Nations/Nationalism
Kenny succeeds in bringing clarity to a notoriously muddled and woolly area . . . The book is not only ... Read morefascinating for specialists in the field, but can also be recommended to anyone who is new to the debate, because it does not assume prior knowledge . . . This is a wonderful book, containing much both to challenge and to cheer. It is a calming, balanced approach to the current debate, deflating the lazy false dichotomies that have been peddled by the broadsheets. It is, in fact, the book we have been missing, and it dramatically realigns the parameters of a debate that has for too long been governed by negative emotions, especially by metropolitan English self-dread.
Isabel Taylor, Albion magazine Online
A welcome and timely effort to think about what England after the Union might end up looking like.
Mark Perryman, Philosophy Football
To what extent has there been a rise in English nationalism in recent years? What is its character, and its possible causes? Michael Kenny's subtle and suggestive study is unusual in stressing the importance of political traditions and ideologies, to complement the usual cultural analyses, in explaining recent developments. He draws upon a mass of recent survey research and combines this skilfully with historical and cultural accounts to conduct a thoughtful and illuminating inquiry that will be a major contribution to current debates about the future of the United Kingdom.
Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia
The English have often been confused about who they really are. In this major new study Michael Kenny provides an eloquent and nuanced account of the idea of Englishness, drawing on a wide range of sources and perspectives. He gives a compelling and absorbing analysis of the complex meanings of Englishness and how they relate to politics.
Andrew Gamble, University of Cambridge
Michael Kenny's The Politics of English Nationhood is a deserving winner of this year's WJM MacKenzie Book Prize. In a timely and insightful account, this book addresses the many confusions that exist concerning Englishness providing a nuanced and informative examination of why a myriad of complex meanings have arisen and how 'the English question' should be understood. The book claims it offers 'a powerful challenge' to prevailing orthodoxies - this is does, but it also reconstructs a more liberal and civic idea of multicultural England drawing on its political dimensions. An impressive piece of research with potentially far reaching impact on how we should think about a fundamental issue in contemporary politics.
Commendation from the jury for the WJM MacKenzie Prize for best book of 2014 by the Political Studies Association
Kenny recognizes the potential for right-wing populist English nationalism but stresses also the progressive tradition and sees Englishness as potentially positive, as long as it is not left to the extremists. In this he echoes calls from the English left to embrace Englishness while warning against efforts to force it. This is a sophisticated and historically rich analysis and a welcome counter-balance to some of the more simplistic writing about the English question.
Michael Keating, University of Aberdeen
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