...The transformation of English national identity began with Margaret Thatcher's 1979 government. The contemporary production of Englishness became, and continues to be, labour intensive, because England had lost the material foundation of that identity. The recently reformulated Englishness...

... Corbridge S Mitchell T state governmentality Filling in State personnel Anthropological understandings of the state Devolution Economic governance National identity The process of filling in that we have discussed in preceding chapters is one that has been taking place through the reconfiguration...

... did secure settlement in Gibraltar. This exercise is particularly necessary because the ethnicity of people in other places has been translated by them into a sense of national identity, and this has carried political implications. The second major theme of the book is to consider why settlers came...

... of association with the idea of abstinence’ which was needed to kick-start the temperance campaign. In post-colonial America, as in Hanoverian England, alcohol consumption tapped into deep-set concerns about both freedom and national identity. Organised teetotalism was a revolutionary idea, especially among...

... identity politics. In this chapter, focusing on the concepts of regional and national identity, but also age, we have demonstrated that our respondents connected with such politics. They used encounters with popular culture to explore the values, interests and characteristics of these communities...

... explores these drawbacks in turn, and analyses James’s strategies for overcoming them. The chapter argues that the discussions about James’s national identity had repercussions on the sense of nationhood developing in England during this period. It also reveals how the arguments about the nature...

...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the role of national identity on Irish foreign policy. It explains that each narrative outlined Irish foreign policy history in a different way and discusses how a particular narrative came to dominate the public debate and thereby successfully...

... to this collection agreed that the ‘great divide’ offered unsatisfactory ways of understanding the formation of national identity and shared a desire to ‘re-imagine’ the nation in ways that could build on the insights offered by both sides of the divide. This chapter considers some of these new approaches...

...This chapter investigates how the Croatian nation was imagined in the 1990s. It focuses on four sets of accounts that attempted to provide contemporary resonance to the abstract frames of national identity. After a discussion of the so-called ‘Franjoist’ narrative offered by Croatia's President...

... of Croatian national identity in the 1990s were manifested in a variety of social practices. This level of abstraction is concerned with how competing conceptions of national identity that make use of abstract frames are manifested and embedded in social practice and in identifying sites of resistance...

... in a comprehensive engagement with Asia. For Howard, Australia’s identity was situated firmly within the Anglo-sphere. This chapter examines how such articulations of national identity related to foreign policy during the Keating and Howard governments. Through an exploration of foreign policy language...

...This chapter focuses on Turkey's quest for national identity and nationalism. It analyses the connection between Turkish nationalism and Islam, the encounter between Turkey and the Turkic peoples in the Caucasus and Central Asia, and Turkey's conflict with Syria over the latter's support...

... Roberto Peace movements Partisans of peace Nationalism National identity In 1953, in the small town of Brescello, near Reggio Emilia, the Communist mayor Giuseppe ‘Peppone’ Bottazzi is giving the final speech of his campaign for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. As a staunch Communist, Peppone...

... Ocampo Florián de Padilla Lorenzo Peñalosa Benito de Puente Juan de la Quevedo y Villegas Francisco de Salazar Juan de Japheth Jason Ulysses Ethnic or pre national patriotism Hobbes Thomas Locke John Moliner Prada Antonio Spain Spanish national identity Citizens of Madrid...

...This chapter examines the most important obstacles from the early modern age to the formation of a national identity in the nineteenth century. The first thing one notices in the early expressions of identification and pride in relation to Spain is the alternation between...

... de Aragón Bravo Juan Castile Gisbert Antonio Lanuza Juan de Maldonado Francisco Painting national historical Gallego Juan N Llorente Juan Antonio Spain Spanish identity national identity national histories political identity In 1815, following the second, definitive defeat of Napoleon...

... inception in the early 1920s to the Second World War. The reach and potential influence of the BBC suggests that the empire remained important to British national identity in the 1950s, even after the first wave of decolonization. The extent and range of programmes that had empire as their subject matter...

...This chapter considers BBC broadcasting in Wales. Wales was not a region but a nation, though it lacked an identity. The study of broadcasting and national identity in Wales poses several problems unique to the principality. For one, the region of Wales in the BBC was not established until 1937...

... Henryson Robert Coupar Angus MS Andrew of Wyntoun Battle of Roslin McRoberts David prayer preaching Smith Michelle soldier saints Ditchburn David Margaret of Scotland hagiography national identity Scotichronicon Bower Walter Turgot Bishop Canonised in 1250, Queen Margaret of Scotland...

...This chapter examines the creation and commodification of national identity within popular dance. The discussion focuses on the efforts of the dance profession to standardise the steps of the English style, and demonstrates that there was far more invested in that process than simply establishing...