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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 85
Página ix
... Research since 1999 , has provided an important intellectual space . The untimely death of Rachel Fruchter in July 1998 was a great blow . Her expeditions with me in Jamaica were a tremendous pleasure , and Acknowledgements ix I.
... Research since 1999 , has provided an important intellectual space . The untimely death of Rachel Fruchter in July 1998 was a great blow . Her expeditions with me in Jamaica were a tremendous pleasure , and Acknowledgements ix I.
Página xiii
... important campaigners and orators on parliamentary reform outside the House of Commons in 1866-7 . Thomas Burchell ( 1799-1846 ) Son of a Tetbury wool - stapler , he was converted while an apprentice , and accepted as a trainee ...
... important campaigners and orators on parliamentary reform outside the House of Commons in 1866-7 . Thomas Burchell ( 1799-1846 ) Son of a Tetbury wool - stapler , he was converted while an apprentice , and accepted as a trainee ...
Página xv
... importance of the town as a site of social improvement and reform , and was an architect of Birmingham's ' civic gospel ' . Walter Dendy ( ? -1881 ) A Wiltshire Baptist , he married a cousin of William Knibb , and sailed for Jamaica as ...
... importance of the town as a site of social improvement and reform , and was an architect of Birmingham's ' civic gospel ' . Walter Dendy ( ? -1881 ) A Wiltshire Baptist , he married a cousin of William Knibb , and sailed for Jamaica as ...
Página xvii
... important church on East Queen's Street . Difficulties within the church embittered him , and he became increasingly sceptical of the potential of Africans to become fully civilised . In 1866 he expressed support for Eyre , and left ...
... important church on East Queen's Street . Difficulties within the church embittered him , and he became increasingly sceptical of the potential of Africans to become fully civilised . In 1866 he expressed support for Eyre , and left ...
Página 1
... important in providing a focus for communities strug- gling with the experience of war and major conflict . Fuller , as it was known by everybody , had always played a significant part in the life of the town . Dissent had had a ...
... important in providing a focus for communities strug- gling with the experience of war and major conflict . Fuller , as it was known by everybody , had always played a significant part in the life of the town . Dissent had had a ...
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 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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 |
Términos y frases comunes
abolitionist active African anti-slavery argued associated Australia Baptist Baptist missionaries became become believed Birmingham Britain British Carlyle cause century chapel character Christian church civilisation claimed colonial coloured committee congregations continued culture depended early East Edward emancipation empire England English enslaved established European Eyre forms freedom friends George Hall History hope House imperial important India interest island Jamaica James John Joseph Knibb labour land Letters living London meant meeting mind minister mission missionaries Morgan named native nature needed negro Office particular Phillippo planters political population present Press Quaker question race racial relation reported represented respectable response slave slavery social society South Sturge sugar thinking Thomas tion town Underhill University West Indies women wrote
Pasajes populares
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.