Introduction: Nationalism beyond the nation-state / Graham MacPhee & Prem Poddar -- "As white as ours" : Africa, Ireland, imperial panic, and the effects of British race discourse / Enda Duffy -- Writing about Englishness : South Africa's forgotten nationalism / Vivian Bickford-Smith -- Passports, empire, subjecthood / Prem Poddar -- Friends across the water : British orientalists and Middle Eastern nationalisms / Geoffrey Nash -- Under English eyes : the disappearance of Irishness in Conrad's The secret agent / Graham MacPhee -- Brit bomber : the fundamentalist trope in Hanif Kureishi's The black album and "My son the fanatic" / Sheila Ghose -- Crisis of identity? : Englishness, Britishness, and whiteness / Bridget Byrne -- Conserving purity, labouring the past : a tropological evolution of Englishness / Colin wright -- All the downtown Tories : mourning Englishness in New York / Matthew Hart.