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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... nature of these con- nections were . A visiting West African student was upset with me when I exclaimed about the ' funny ' feel of her hair and kept wanting to touch it . A great United Nations enthusiast , an acquaintance of my ...
... nature of these con- nections were . A visiting West African student was upset with me when I exclaimed about the ' funny ' feel of her hair and kept wanting to touch it . A great United Nations enthusiast , an acquaintance of my ...
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... nature of the picture I had produced . There was so much I had not seen because I had not been looking for it . Class and gender were indeed crucial axes of power , differentiating men and women and bisecting this divide in cross ...
... nature of the picture I had produced . There was so much I had not seen because I had not been looking for it . Class and gender were indeed crucial axes of power , differentiating men and women and bisecting this divide in cross ...
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... nature of the transformation they sought ? And what happened to their dream ? Who were their supporters at home ? What picture of the empire did Birmingham Baptists have ? What forms of belonging to town , nation and empire did ...
... nature of the transformation they sought ? And what happened to their dream ? Who were their supporters at home ? What picture of the empire did Birmingham Baptists have ? What forms of belonging to town , nation and empire did ...
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... natural scientists began to make human races an object of study , labour- ing to produce a schema out of the immense varieties of human life , within a context of relatively few physical variations . On the one hand , there were those ...
... natural scientists began to make human races an object of study , labour- ing to produce a schema out of the immense varieties of human life , within a context of relatively few physical variations . On the one hand , there were those ...
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... nature of these terms with inverted commas , since the book is about those changing representations . Thus ' negro ' is the word used by the abolitionists and commonly adopted by those who wished to adopt a respectful term for black ...
... nature of these terms with inverted commas , since the book is about those changing representations . Thus ' negro ' is the word used by the abolitionists and commonly adopted by those who wished to adopt a respectful term for black ...
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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