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"While the British Empire is long gone, it survives as a recurring flashpoint in heated debates about the present and future of Britain and the nations over which Britain once rules. [This book] turns a critical eye to the widely-held notion that the long shadow of the imperial past has much to answer for, and asks to what extent should the residual after-effects of Britain's colonial empire be taken at face value? From the 'Rhodes must fall' controversy and contested anniversaries to immigration scares and the question of what Britishness is in a post-imperial world, an eclectic mix of expert researchers, writers and commentators consider the legacy of the British Empire in the battle over Brexit. As the United Kingdom haggles its way out of the European Union and casts about for an alternative future, this volume shows how the memory of the Empire is still as potent a political force as ever."
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National characteristics, French --- National characteristics, British --- France --- Great Britain --- France
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National characteristics, British --- Isolationism --- Cultural pluralism --- Gumbel, Peter --- Great Britain
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A panoramic history of the end of Britain as a global civic idea from the Second World War to the present day. Stuart Ward uncovers the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced and ultimately discarded as the British empire unravelled and the 'four nations' of the United Kingdom drew steadily apart.
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For hundreds of years English people have claimed that fair play is at the core of their national identity. Jonathan Duke-Evans looks at the history of fair play in Britain from earliest times to the present, asking whether it is in fact a British, or alternatively an English, characteristic at all - and if so, whether fair play still matters today?In An English Tradition?, Jonathan Duke-Evans explores the origins of the idea of fair play, tracing it back to the classical world and the Dark Ages, and finding its genesis deep within England's social structure. Charting its early development through both the tales of chivalry and the stories of popular legend, the book shows how fair play manifested itself in literature, the law, the Christian religion, and the family. It examines the way in which fair play was conceived during the ages of slavery and empire, and it proposes a new account of the birth of modern sport in the encounter between age-old popular games and the Victorian cult of amateurism. Taking in the Scottish, Irish, and Welsh manifestations of fair play, Duke-Evans offers contrasts and comparisons from cultures all around the world, and suggests new perspectives on the relevance of fair play in the twenty-first century.
Sportsmanship --- National characteristics, British --- Fairness --- Social ethics --- Great Britain --- Sportivité. --- History --- Sportivité.
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National characteristics, British --- Nationalism - Great Britain - History --- Great Britain --- Great Britain
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National characteristics, British --- Group identity --- British --- History --- Ethnic identity --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- Civilization --- National characteristics, British - History - Congresses --- Group identity - Great Britain - History - Congresses --- British - Ethnic identity - Congresses --- Great Britain - Colonies - History - Congresses --- Great Britain - Civilization - Congresses
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