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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Página vii
... chapel and dwelling house at Sligoville Clarkson Town 126 129 6 Africa receiving the Gospel 146 7 William Knibb , a ... chapel , Spanish Town 13 Joseph Sturge 15 Carrs Lane chapel 194 356 364 384 Acknowledgements I am deeply ...
... chapel and dwelling house at Sligoville Clarkson Town 126 129 6 Africa receiving the Gospel 146 7 William Knibb , a ... chapel , Spanish Town 13 Joseph Sturge 15 Carrs Lane chapel 194 356 364 384 Acknowledgements I am deeply ...
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... chapel was destroyed . In Britain , he became an active supporter of emanci- pation , and after his return to Jamaica in 1834 , emerged as a powerful figure , running numerous mission stations and establishing free villages . Thomas ...
... chapel was destroyed . In Britain , he became an active supporter of emanci- pation , and after his return to Jamaica in 1834 , emerged as a powerful figure , running numerous mission stations and establishing free villages . Thomas ...
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... 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 1837. In 1839 , with the help of his wife , he established the new village of Sturge ...
... 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 1837. In 1839 , with the help of his wife , he established the new village of Sturge ...
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... 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 , dedicated to a spirit of free inquiry ...
... 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 , dedicated to a spirit of free inquiry ...
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... chapel rapidly became a centre of town life , and James himself a celebrated figure . A prolific writer , well - known evangelical preacher and powerful protagonist of separate spheres , his most influential book was The Anxious ...
... chapel rapidly became a centre of town life , and James himself a celebrated figure . A prolific writer , well - known evangelical preacher and powerful protagonist of separate spheres , his most influential book was The Anxious ...
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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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.