Britishness or Englishness? The historical problem of national identity in Britain

Nations and Nationalism

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-69

  Langlands, Rebecca ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNOPOLITICS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; NATIONAL IDENTITY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032910292     PISSN: 13545078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1354-5078.1999.00053.x     Document Type: Article

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