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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... Thomas Burchell ( 1799-1846 ) Son of a Tetbury wool - stapler , he was converted while an apprentice , and accepted as a trainee missionary by the BMS in 1819. He went to Jamaica with his wife , Hester , in 1823 , and they settled in ...
... Thomas Burchell ( 1799-1846 ) Son of a Tetbury wool - stapler , he was converted while an apprentice , and accepted as a trainee missionary by the BMS in 1819. He went to Jamaica with his wife , Hester , in 1823 , and they settled in ...
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... Thomas Morgan ( 1776-1857 ) The son of a Welsh Anglican farmer , he trained as a Baptist minister at Bristol College with Dr Ryland , and succeeded Samuel Pearce at Birm- ingham's Cannon Street chapel in 1802. He was forced to resign ...
... Thomas Morgan ( 1776-1857 ) The son of a Welsh Anglican farmer , he trained as a Baptist minister at Bristol College with Dr Ryland , and succeeded Samuel Pearce at Birm- ingham's Cannon Street chapel in 1802. He was forced to resign ...
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... Thomas Carlyle's ' Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question ' had an impact locally as well as nationally . The period with which I am concerned , 1830-1867 , is framed both by emancipation and the rebellion at Morant Bay in Jamaica ...
... Thomas Carlyle's ' Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question ' had an impact locally as well as nationally . The period with which I am concerned , 1830-1867 , is framed both by emancipation and the rebellion at Morant Bay in Jamaica ...
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... Thomas Burchell and James Mursell Phillippo - to go there in the 1820s . It documents their establishment of the ' mission family ' , the hostility they met from the plantocracy , their recognition that slavery and Christianity could ...
... Thomas Burchell and James Mursell Phillippo - to go there in the 1820s . It documents their establishment of the ' mission family ' , the hostility they met from the plantocracy , their recognition that slavery and Christianity could ...
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... Thomas Carlyle , was a critical figure in harnessing the energies of Birmingham men to a new cause , that of European nationalisms . In the 1830s emancipation and reform had been linked in the minds of the men of ' the midland ...
... Thomas Carlyle , was a critical figure in harnessing the energies of Birmingham men to a new cause , that of European nationalisms . In the 1830s emancipation and reform had been linked in the minds of the men of ' the midland ...
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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