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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... South Africa and Brazil over the years , and have always learned from these occasions . The group of scholars in history and anthropol- ogy at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor have been particularly supportive . I thank all those ...
... South Africa and Brazil over the years , and have always learned from these occasions . The group of scholars in history and anthropol- ogy at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor have been particularly supportive . I thank all those ...
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... South Australia . His first Colonial Office appointment was in New Zealand ( 1847 ) , followed by St Vincent , then Antigua , and in 1862 , Jamaica . When rebellion broke out in Morant Bay in 1865 , he imposed martial law with brutality ...
... South Australia . His first Colonial Office appointment was in New Zealand ( 1847 ) , followed by St Vincent , then Antigua , and in 1862 , Jamaica . When rebellion broke out in Morant Bay in 1865 , he imposed martial law with brutality ...
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... South and East Asians and others , have settled , had children , and changed these ' contact zones ' of the second half of the twentieth century into something new . In the late 1940s the community around Fuller was close - knit ...
... South and East Asians and others , have settled , had children , and changed these ' contact zones ' of the second half of the twentieth century into something new . In the late 1940s the community around Fuller was close - knit ...
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... South Asia whose labour was needed in the car industry , the metal trades and the public sectors which serviced the population of the West Midlands . In the election of 1964 race and immi- gration had surfaced explicitly in ...
... South Asia whose labour was needed in the car industry , the metal trades and the public sectors which serviced the population of the West Midlands . In the election of 1964 race and immi- gration had surfaced explicitly in ...
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... South - East Asia , tropical America and Oceania fell to anthropologists.18 I have become a historian of Britain who is convinced that , in order to understand the specificity of the national formation , we have to look outside it . A ...
... South - East Asia , tropical America and Oceania fell to anthropologists.18 I have become a historian of Britain who is convinced that , in order to understand the specificity of the national formation , we have to look outside it . A ...
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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Página 14 - The settler makes history; his life is an epoch, an Odyssey. He is the absolute beginning: "This land was created by us"; he is the unceasing cause: "If we leave, all is lost, and the country will go back to the Middle Ages.