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English Nationalism and Euroscepticism

Losing the Peace

by Ben Wellings (Author)
©2012 Monographs VIII, 285 Pages
Series: British Identities since 1707, Volume 1

Summary

This book seeks out the origins of contemporary English nationalism. Whilst much academic and political attention has been given to England’s place within the United Kingdom since devolution, the author argues that recent English nationalism actually derives from Britain’s troubled relationship with European integration. Drawing on political evidence from the former Empire, the debates surrounding EEC accession and the United Kingdom’s ongoing membership in the European Union, the author identifies the foundations of contemporary English nationalism. In doing so, he adds an important corrective to the debate about nationalism in England, pulling our gaze out from the United Kingdom itself and onto a wider field. Far from being ‘absent’, English nationalism as we know it today has been driven by resistance to European integration since the end of Empire in the 1960s.

Details

Pages
VIII, 285
Publication Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9783035302851
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034302043
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0285-1
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (April)
Keywords
Nationalism England Britain Britishness Euroscepticism sovereignty end of empire EEC referendum 1975 Thatcherism war memory European integration
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2012. VIII, 285 pp.

Biographical notes

Ben Wellings (Author)

Ben Wellings is Convenor of European Studies and Deputy-head of the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. He has studied at the universities of Sussex, Nantes and Edinburgh, as well as the ANU. He teaches courses on British politics, the European Union, nationalism, contemporary European history and modern European history.

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