Storied Ground - Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity

The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Borders: 1. The cliffs of Dover; 2. The Northumbrian borderland; Part II. Preservation: 3. The Lake District; 4. The New Forest; Part III. Beyond the South Country: 5. Manchester: shock landscape?; 6. The Thames; Conclusion.

About the author

Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London. He is author of Land and Nation: Patriotism, National Identity and the Politics of Land (2008). His other publications include, as co-editor, The Land Question in Britain (2010), Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914 (2014) and Walking Histories, 1800–1914 (2016), as well as many articles and essays. As a keen walker and perpetual tourist, he has a long-standing interest in the diverse ways that human experience shapes, and is shaped by, landscape and place.

Summary

People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. This exploration of modern Englishness shows how it is not just linked to the usual pastoral idyll of chocolate-box thatched cottages and waving fields of corn, but is found in diverse locations - urban and rural, and north and south.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Readman, Paul (King's College London) Readman, Paul (King''s College London) Readman, Readman Paul
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781108424738
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42473-8
• No. of pages: 348
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology, Historical Geography