Kumar Krishan. The Making of English National Identity

Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 382 p. — (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies). — ISBN: 0-521-77188-9.Why is English national identity so enigmatic and so elusive? Why, unlike the Scots, Welsh, Irish and most of continental Europe, do the English find it so difficult to say who they are? The Making of English National Identity, first published in 2003, is a fascinating exploration of Englishness and what it means to be English.Preface page.
English or British? The question of English national identity.
Nations and nationalism: civic, ethnic and imperial.
When was England?
The first English Empire.
The English nation: parent of nationalism?
The making of British identity.
The moment of Englishness.
The English and the British today.