Table of Contents

Introduction
The People's Empire and the People's War
The Post-War People's Empire
Coronation Britain
Colonial Wars
Immigration
Elegies for Empire: The Romance of Manliness
Epilogue
Bibliography

Reviews

`Review from previous edition Englishness and Empire represents a thoroughly researched and thought-provoking monograph, which will prove invaluable to studetns and researchers across the humanities.
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Shompa Lahiri, Journal of British Studies
`Thoroughly researched, cogently argued and lucidly written, Englishness and Empire is an important work which deserves to be accorded major currency in the historiography of national identity.
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James Chapman, History
`'Wendy Webster's new book makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the effects of the loss of imperial power and the end of empire on British culture between 1939-65.
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Catherine Hall, Twentieth-Century British History
`A highly readable study ... The novel focus makes this an important study for scholars of modern British history, empire and Commonwealth, decolonization, migration, gender, ethnicity and race.
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History Today