This timely book provides an extensive account of national identities in three of the
constituent nations of the United Kingdom: Wales Scotland and England. In all three contexts
identity and nationalism have become questions of acute interest in both academic and political
commentary. The authors take stock of a wealth of empirical material and explore how attitudes
to nation and state can be understood by relating them to changes in contemporary capitalist
economies and the consequences for particular class fractions. The book argues that these
changes give rise to a set of resentments among people who perceive themselves to be losing out
concluding that class resentments depending on historical and political factors relevant to
each nation can take the form of either sub-state nationalism or right wing populism. Nation
Class and Resentment shows that the politics of resentment is especially salient in England
where the promotion of a distinct national identity is problematic. Students and scholars
across a range of disciplines including sociology and politics will find this study of
interest.
