"When Was Britain? Nostalgia for the Nation at the End of the "American Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3436786 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Burton (0000-0002-9638-2263, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 359-374 |
| Publication date | 2003-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2801 • E-ISSN: 1537-5358 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/380143 |
| OpenAlex | W2074503222 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 6 |
By now it is practically axiomatic that rumors about the death of the nation in an age of postcolonialism and globalization are premature.Nowhere is this clearer than in the case of Britain.The transfer of Hong Kong to China, the devolution of Scotland, the moves toward abolishing hereditary peerage, and, on the very eve of the new millennium, the shift of power from London to Belfast-if these, taken either separately or together, do not signify the end of Britain as we have known it in its post-Victorian incarnations, it is hard to imagine what would. 1 To be sure, sterling persists as the "national" currency into 2003, when most of the rest of Europe has gone euro.There is still a monarchy and an established church.And neither the most reckless nor the most utopian among us can afford to be sanguine about the permanence of the recurrently "new" Irish situation or, for that matter, its long-term viability.Indeed, the very fact that national identities are repeatedly staged, ritualized performances designed to persuade subjects and citizens that the nation is above and beyond the vagaries of history means that there have been many incarnations of "Britain" over time and across space.And yet, the thoroughgoing, if not radical, disjuncture with the past that the events of the last few * I take as my ironic point of departure the question posed by Gwyn Williams in the title of his 1985 book
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2018 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |