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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... became MP for Durham in 1843 , and for Manchester between 1847 and 1857. In the 1850s he was a leading advocate of parliamentary and finan- cial reform , an opponent of the Crimean War , and a critic of the British response to the ...
... became MP for Durham in 1843 , and for Manchester between 1847 and 1857. In the 1850s he was a leading advocate of parliamentary and finan- cial reform , an opponent of the Crimean War , and a critic of the British response to the ...
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... became fascinated by the mis- sionary venture in Jamaica . In 1836 he established a new chapel in Brown's Town , where he stayed for the rest of his life . The same year he began a correspondence with Joseph Sturge , who visited him in ...
... became fascinated by the mis- sionary venture in Jamaica . In 1836 he established a new chapel in Brown's Town , where he stayed for the rest of his life . The same year he began a correspondence with Joseph Sturge , who visited him in ...
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... became minister of Mount Zion chapel in Birmingham . A powerful preacher and lecturer , he soon estab- lished a reputation in Birmingham and beyond . In 1846 his followers built a new church for him , the Church of the Saviour ...
... became minister of Mount Zion chapel in Birmingham . A powerful preacher and lecturer , he soon estab- lished a reputation in Birmingham and beyond . In 1846 his followers built a new church for him , the Church of the Saviour ...
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... became pastor at Carrs Lane in Birmingham , and stayed there until his death . The chapel rapidly became a centre of town life , and James himself a celebrated figure . A prolific writer , well - known evangelical preacher and powerful ...
... became pastor at Carrs Lane in Birmingham , and stayed there until his death . The chapel rapidly became a centre of town life , and James himself a celebrated figure . A prolific writer , well - known evangelical preacher and powerful ...
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... became a missionary . His first work was with Thomas Burchell , and then he settled in Kingston , where he became the minister of the important church on East Queen's Street . Difficulties within the church embittered him , and he became ...
... became a missionary . His first work was with Thomas Burchell , and then he settled in Kingston , where he became the minister of the important church on East Queen's Street . Difficulties within the church embittered him , and he became ...
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 |
| 538 | |
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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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