- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press; annotated edition edition (10 Oct 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0300120524
- ISBN-13: 978-0300120523
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.7 x 0.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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'...tremendously rewarding and instructive...'
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'This is a fascinating read...a very impressive overview.'
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Mandler has produced an engaging survey of the idea of English national character from the mid-18th century to the early 21st century. He does so with relying both on political theory and popular culture, rooting his explanations in a varied material to make them even more compelling.
1. Introduction: England Before Character
2. The English People: "Civilization" and its Discontents, The Impact of 1832, English Traits
3. Anglo-Saxons: The Impacts of 1848 and 1867, What Makes a Nation? Race and Civilization, Teutomania, Teutonic Virtues
4. Great Britons: Character Under Siege, Patriotic Alternatives, Britishness and Englishness
5. Little England: The Impact of War and Democracy, From John Bull to "Little Man", As Others See Us, England, Whose England?
6. England After Character? After the War, After Suez, After the Nation?
1. Introduction: England Before Character
2. The English People: "Civilization" and its Discontents, The Impact of 1832, English Traits
3. Anglo-Saxons: The Impacts of 1848 and 1867, What Makes a Nation? Race and Civilization, Teutomania, Teutonic Virtues
4. Great Britons: Character Under Siege, Patriotic Alternatives, Britishness and Englishness
5. Little England: The Impact of War and Democracy, From John Bull to "Little Man", As Others See Us, England, Whose England?
6. England After Character? After the War, After Suez, After the Nation?
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