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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... meant that some of the specifically Christian dimensions of a connection with other parts of the world could be displaced by a focus on internationalism . But there were uncomfortable moments as to quite what the nature of these con ...
... meant that some of the specifically Christian dimensions of a connection with other parts of the world could be displaced by a focus on internationalism . But there were uncomfortable moments as to quite what the nature of these con ...
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... meant black men , and I worked on gender , which meant white women : a variation on that common phenomenon on the Left , where men dealt with class and women with gender . At moments of crisis , it was taken for granted that ' we ...
... meant black men , and I worked on gender , which meant white women : a variation on that common phenomenon on the Left , where men dealt with class and women with gender . At moments of crisis , it was taken for granted that ' we ...
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... meant by the Baptist family of man . 1 first visited Jamaica in 1964 , soon after independence , but thereafter went only irregularly until the late 1980s . I found it a difficult place because it meant encountering my whiteness ...
... meant by the Baptist family of man . 1 first visited Jamaica in 1964 , soon after independence , but thereafter went only irregularly until the late 1980s . I found it a difficult place because it meant encountering my whiteness ...
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... meant to be black and British , when black feminists asked who belonged , and in what ways , to the collective ' we ' of a feminist sister- hood . That question was posed very sharply in the editorial meetings of Feminist Review , a ...
... meant to be black and British , when black feminists asked who belonged , and in what ways , to the collective ' we ' of a feminist sister- hood . That question was posed very sharply in the editorial meetings of Feminist Review , a ...
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... meant ' the replacing of a certain " species " of men by another species of men ' . This involved the ' verita- ble creation of new men ... the " thing " which has been colonised becomes man ' , and the coloniser in his or her turn had ...
... meant ' the replacing of a certain " species " of men by another species of men ' . This involved the ' verita- ble creation of new men ... the " thing " which has been colonised becomes man ' , and the coloniser in his or her turn had ...
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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