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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... century nonconformity with me . I have found intellectual sustenance in the growing community of feminist historians engaged in rethinking empire both in Britain and the USA . Particular thanks to Antoinette Burton , Joanna de Groot ...
... century nonconformity with me . I have found intellectual sustenance in the growing community of feminist historians engaged in rethinking empire both in Britain and the USA . Particular thanks to Antoinette Burton , Joanna de Groot ...
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... Century England ' , Gender and History , 5 , 2 ( Summer 1993 ) , pp . 212-30 . I am grateful to all these publishers for allowing me to reprint material . Much of the book was written in Wivenhoe , where the Colne estuary has provided ...
... Century England ' , Gender and History , 5 , 2 ( Summer 1993 ) , pp . 212-30 . I am grateful to all these publishers for allowing me to reprint material . Much of the book was written in Wivenhoe , where the Colne estuary has provided ...
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... century , and it was in Kettering that the Baptist Missionary Society was formed in 1792 , the first of the great missionary ventures of the late eighteenth century . William Knibb , a Baptist mis- sionary to Jamaica who was closely ...
... century , and it was in Kettering that the Baptist Missionary Society was formed in 1792 , the first of the great missionary ventures of the late eighteenth century . William Knibb , a Baptist mis- sionary to Jamaica who was closely ...
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... century into something new . In the late 1940s the community around Fuller was close - knit , including a few well - to - do families but dominated by small manufacturers and traders , many still working in leather . As young chil- dren ...
... century into something new . In the late 1940s the community around Fuller was close - knit , including a few well - to - do families but dominated by small manufacturers and traders , many still working in leather . As young chil- dren ...
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... century . In the early 1960s the city fathers were busy destroying much of what was left of the Victorian town and building the Bull Ring and the motorway which circled the heart of the city , ugly monuments to the car and con- sumption ...
... century . In the early 1960s the city fathers were busy destroying much of what was left of the Victorian town and building the Bull Ring and the motorway which circled the heart of the city , ugly monuments to the car and con- sumption ...
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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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