The Anglophone world, at home or abroad, clearly offers

researchers and students fascinating case-studies and live developments

on the elaboration of nations, on the composition

and re-composition of national identities and on the growth or

demise of nationalist movements and nation-state formations. In this

first volume, A. Arleo, P. Lees, F. Le Jeune and B. Sellin tackle

case-studies of preeminent nations in the Anglophone world by

measuring the development of national identity and nation-formation

in the British Isles (England and Scotland) as well as in England's

very first Empire, America. Through these chapters, readers will

understand that a common ethnicity does not necessarily create

similar nations or similar nation-states as they will follow the subtle

crafting of nationalist feelings and the mechanism of identity formation,

both largely supported by the invention or re-invention of myths

and symbols.