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Englishness and Empire 1939-1965 (Paperback)
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Wendy Webster explores popular narratives of nation in the mainstream media archive - newspapers, newsreels, radio, film, and television. The contours of the study generally follow stories told through prolific filmic and television imagery: the Second World War, the Coronation and Everest, colonial wars of the 1950s, and Winston Churchill's funeral. The book analyses three main narratives that conflicted and collided in the period - a Commonwealth that promised to maintain Britishness as a global identity; siege narratives of colonial wars and immigration that showed a 'little England' threatened by empire and its legacies; and a story of national greatness, celebrating the martial masculinity of British officers and leaders, through which imperial identity leaked into narratives of the Second World War developed after 1945. The book also explores the significance of America to post-imperial Britain.
Englishness and Empire considers how far, and in what contexts and unexpected places, imperial identity and loss of imperial power resonated in popular narratives of nataion. As the first monograph to investigate the significance of empire and its legacies in shaping national identity after 1945, this is an important study for all scholars interested in questions of national identity and their intersections with gender, race, empire, immigration, and decolonization.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
264
Release Date:
2007-12-07
Publication Date:
2007-10-11
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199226644
ISBN13:
9780199226641
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
406 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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