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 vi
... Friends of the Negro ' 309 The utopian years 325 6 The Limits of Friendship : Abolitionism in Decline 1842-1859 338 ' A population intellectually at zero ' 338 Carlyle's occasion 347 George Dawson and the politics of race and ...
... Friends of the Negro ' 309 The utopian years 325 6 The Limits of Friendship : Abolitionism in Decline 1842-1859 338 ' A population intellectually at zero ' 338 Carlyle's occasion 347 George Dawson and the politics of race and ...
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... friends have supported me . My talks with Sally Alexander about history over nearly thirty years have been , and continue to be , a joy and a pleasure . Michele Barrett , Avtar Brah , Leonore Davidoff , Miriam Glucksmann , Alison Light ...
... friends have supported me . My talks with Sally Alexander about history over nearly thirty years have been , and continue to be , a joy and a pleasure . Michele Barrett , Avtar Brah , Leonore Davidoff , Miriam Glucksmann , Alison Light ...
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... friends Peter Hulme , Cora Kaplan , Gail Lewis , Keith McClelland , Jane Rendall and Bill Schwarz have all read and given me invaluable comments on the entire manuscript , for which I am very grateful . In addi- tion , the comments from ...
... friends Peter Hulme , Cora Kaplan , Gail Lewis , Keith McClelland , Jane Rendall and Bill Schwarz have all read and given me invaluable comments on the entire manuscript , for which I am very grateful . In addi- tion , the comments from ...
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... friendship , companionship , a sense of purpose and a place of belonging , where the ritual moments of life and ... friends in Baptist chapels everywhere . This was , in its own way , a transnational world . In 1949 , when I was ...
... friendship , companionship , a sense of purpose and a place of belonging , where the ritual moments of life and ... friends in Baptist chapels everywhere . This was , in its own way , a transnational world . In 1949 , when I was ...
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... friend of the negro ' was an ener- gising identity for both men and women . The Baptists of Birmingham ... friends of the negro ' , manly citizenship , as it was defined in the Reform Act of 1867 , was an exclusively white ...
... friend of the negro ' was an ener- gising identity for both men and women . The Baptists of Birmingham ... friends of the negro ' , manly citizenship , as it was defined in the Reform Act of 1867 , was an exclusively white ...
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.