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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... forms of identity , other kinds of belonging , beyond that of the church . There was school and the political activities to which I became attached : YCND ( the Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ) in particular , an extension of my ...
... forms of identity , other kinds of belonging , beyond that of the church . There was school and the political activities to which I became attached : YCND ( the Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ) in particular , an extension of my ...
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... forms of racial thinking of the 1970s and 1980s : a reworking of the legacy of Joseph Chamber- lain with his passionate belief in empire as essential to the well - being of Britain . Race , it was clear , was deeply rooted in English ...
... forms of racial thinking of the 1970s and 1980s : a reworking of the legacy of Joseph Chamber- lain with his passionate belief in empire as essential to the well - being of Britain . Race , it was clear , was deeply rooted in English ...
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... form of represen- tative government . Yet the vast majority of the population were black or ' coloured ' that is , of mixed race and were not indigenous peoples who , according to nineteenth - century thinking , could be confidently ...
... form of represen- tative government . Yet the vast majority of the population were black or ' coloured ' that is , of mixed race and were not indigenous peoples who , according to nineteenth - century thinking , could be confidently ...
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... forms of representation mattered ? More precisely , my questions concern the missionaries , their wives and children , their supporters and friends , their enemies and critics . Who were the men who decided to be missionaries ? Where ...
... forms of representation mattered ? More precisely , my questions concern the missionaries , their wives and children , their supporters and friends , their enemies and critics . Who were the men who decided to be missionaries ? Where ...
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... , wasted by fevers , obsessed by ancestral customs , form an almost inorganic background for the innovating dynamism of colonial mercantilism . The settler makes history and is conscious of making it . 14 Introduction.
... , wasted by fevers , obsessed by ancestral customs , form an almost inorganic background for the innovating dynamism of colonial mercantilism . The settler makes history and is conscious of making it . 14 Introduction.
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.
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| Título | Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 |
| Autor | Catherine Hall |
| Edición | ilustrada, reimpresa |
| Editor | University of Chicago Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0226313352, 9780226313351 |
| Largo | 556 páginas |
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