Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867University of Chicago Press, 2002 - 556 páginas How did the English get to be English? In Civilising Subjects, Catherine Hall argues that the idea of empire was at the heart of mid-nineteenth-century British self-imagining, with peoples such as the "Aborigines" in Australia and the "negroes" in Jamaica serving as markers of difference separating "civilised" English from "savage" others. Hall uses the stories of two groups of Englishmen and -women to explore British self-constructions both in the colonies and at home. In Jamaica, a group of Baptist missionaries hoped to make African-Jamaicans into people like themselves, only to be disappointed when the project proved neither simple nor congenial to the black men and women for whom they hoped to fashion new selves. And in Birmingham, abolitionist enthusiasm dominated the city in the 1830s, but by the 1860s, a harsher racial vocabulary reflected a new perception of the nonwhite subjects of empire as different kinds of men from the "manly citizens" of Birmingham. This absorbing study of the "racing" of Englishness will be invaluable for imperial and cultural historians. |
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... Jamaica . Margaret Allen , Vicki Crowley , Ann Curthoys , Marilyn Lake and Kay Schaffer helped me to focus on ... Jamaica and to the staff at the Jamaica Baptist Union . Between 1990 and 1992 I spent many happy hours in the reading room ...
... Jamaica . Margaret Allen , Vicki Crowley , Ann Curthoys , Marilyn Lake and Kay Schaffer helped me to focus on ... Jamaica and to the staff at the Jamaica Baptist Union . Between 1990 and 1992 I spent many happy hours in the reading room ...
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... Jamaica with his wife , Ann , in 1840. He initially worked in Falmouth with Knibb , and then established a new church nearby at Waldensia . His initial enthusi- asm for the island and its future was displaced by increasing gloom from ...
... Jamaica with his wife , Ann , in 1840. He initially worked in Falmouth with Knibb , and then established a new church nearby at Waldensia . His initial enthusi- asm for the island and its future was displaced by increasing gloom from ...
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... Jamaica Committee , set up in 1866 to campaign for justice in the wake of Morant Bay . From 1865 to 1868 he was MP for Westminster , and spoke on parliamentary reform , women's suffrage , Jamaica and Ireland . Thomas Morgan ( 1776-1857 ) ...
... Jamaica Committee , set up in 1866 to campaign for justice in the wake of Morant Bay . From 1865 to 1868 he was MP for Westminster , and spoke on parliamentary reform , women's suffrage , Jamaica and Ireland . Thomas Morgan ( 1776-1857 ) ...
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... Jamaica in 1964 , soon after independence , but thereafter went only irregularly until the late 1980s . I found it a difficult place because it meant encountering my whiteness , meeting hostility simply because I was white , being ...
... Jamaica in 1964 , soon after independence , but thereafter went only irregularly until the late 1980s . I found it a difficult place because it meant encountering my whiteness , meeting hostility simply because I was white , being ...
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... Jamaica which constitutes one kind of inside / outside to England , though other colonial locations figure to a lesser extent . In the nineteenth century Jamaica was understood both as a kind of exten- sion to Britain , a useful source ...
... Jamaica which constitutes one kind of inside / outside to England , though other colonial locations figure to a lesser extent . In the nineteenth century Jamaica was understood both as a kind of exten- sion to Britain , a useful source ...
Contenido
V | 25 |
VI | 29 |
VII | 59 |
The Preemancipation World in the Metropolitan Mind | 69 |
VIII | 71 |
The Baptist Missionary Society and the missionary project | 86 |
IX | 88 |
X | 109 |
Mapping the Midland Metropolis | 267 |
XXI | 269 |
XXII | 292 |
XXIII | 303 |
XXIV | 311 |
XXV | 327 |
XXVI | 340 |
XXVII | 349 |
The constitution of the new black subject | 115 |
XI | 117 |
XII | 142 |
XIII | 152 |
XIV | 176 |
XVII | 201 |
XVIII | 211 |
XIX | 231 |
XX | 245 |
XXVIII | 372 |
XXIX | 382 |
XXX | 408 |
XXXI | 426 |
XXXII | 436 |
XXXIII | 444 |
XXXIV | 509 |
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Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 Catherine Hall Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 Catherine Hall Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
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