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
... Native agency and the Africa mission 140 The Baptist family Brother Knibb 150 161 3 ' A Jamaica of the Mind ' 1820-1854 174 Phillippo's Jamaica 174 ' A place of gloomy darkness ' 199 4 Missionary Men and Morant Bay 1859-1866 209 Anthony ...
... Native agency and the Africa mission 140 The Baptist family Brother Knibb 150 161 3 ' A Jamaica of the Mind ' 1820-1854 174 Phillippo's Jamaica 174 ' A place of gloomy darkness ' 199 4 Missionary Men and Morant Bay 1859-1866 209 Anthony ...
Página xiv
... native agents . He was selected to lead the mission to West Africa , where he stayed until 1847 , despite difficult relations with some of his co - workers . Between 1848 and 1852 he was in England , where he published on African ...
... native agents . He was selected to lead the mission to West Africa , where he stayed until 1847 , despite difficult relations with some of his co - workers . Between 1848 and 1852 he was in England , where he published on African ...
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... native Martinique to train as a psychiatrist in Paris . There he encountered the meanings of blackness in a new way . Best known for his thinking about the black male subject , Fanon is less often cited for his recognition of the double ...
... native Martinique to train as a psychiatrist in Paris . There he encountered the meanings of blackness in a new way . Best known for his thinking about the black male subject , Fanon is less often cited for his recognition of the double ...
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... native as a sort of quintessence of evil . ' ' Natives ' could become fully human again only by violently expelling their colonisers , both from their land and from their own psyche . The settlers meanwhile were the heroes of their ...
... native as a sort of quintessence of evil . ' ' Natives ' could become fully human again only by violently expelling their colonisers , both from their land and from their own psyche . The settlers meanwhile were the heroes of their ...
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... native ' woman is excluded . The social mission is as important at home as in the empire : the civilising of others had to take place on multiple fronts , from the civilising work which women did on men in the drawing - room or parlour ...
... native ' woman is excluded . The social mission is as important at home as in the empire : the civilising of others had to take place on multiple fronts , from the civilising work which women did on men in the drawing - room or parlour ...
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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