Product Description

British Cultural Identities analyses contemporary British identity from the various and changing ways in which people who live in the UK position themselves and are positioned by their culture today. Each chapter covers one of the seven intersecting themes: place and environment education, work and leisure gender, sex and the family youth culture and style class and politics ethnicity and language religion and heritage The second edition of this successful book brings it right up to date to cover such phenomena as Posh and Becks, Jamie Oliver, Big Brother, the Millenium Dome and Harry Potter.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #427130 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
'Indispensable the ideal complement to introductory texts on Britain.' - Professor Dr Jurgen Kramer, Dortmund University; 'A valuable introduction to many aspects of British life.' - Dr Ovidi Carbonell, University of Salamanca; 'Well-organised and gives consideration to a variety of relevant factors in the formation of identity - eminently readable.' - Dr Ian Inglis, University of Northumbria

About the Author
Mike Storry was Senior Lecturer in English at Liverpool John Moores University and is now retired. He co-edited the Encyclopaedia of Contemporary British Culture with Peter Childs.

Peter Childs is Principal Lecturer in English at the University of Gloucestershire, author of 'Modernism' and editor of 'Post-colonial Theory and English Literature'.

Customer Reviews

very interesting and useful
this book is very easy to read and interesting. it also has exercises. i use it for my a level communication studies course, but it is presented in such a way that anyone can read it who is interested in the british identity.