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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... supportive . I thank all those who have invited me . I owe an especial debt to the Sisters at Immaculate Conception Convent in Kingston - in particular , my dear cousin Sister Maureen Clare Hall - who have given me a home in.
... supportive . I thank all those who have invited me . I owe an especial debt to the Sisters at Immaculate Conception Convent in Kingston - in particular , my dear cousin Sister Maureen Clare Hall - who have given me a home in.
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... Particular thanks to Antoinette Burton , Joanna de Groot , Clare Midgley , Sonya Rose , Mrinalini Sinha , Carroll Smith - Rosenberg and Ann Laura Stoler . The seminar on ' Reconfiguring the British ' , which Linda Colley and I have ...
... Particular thanks to Antoinette Burton , Joanna de Groot , Clare Midgley , Sonya Rose , Mrinalini Sinha , Carroll Smith - Rosenberg and Ann Laura Stoler . The seminar on ' Reconfiguring the British ' , which Linda Colley and I have ...
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... particular , an extension of my parents ' radical sentiments . It was the political aspects of my parents ' thinking that I took up , while the religious dimensions were cast off . At one of the CND Easter marches to demonstrate against ...
... particular , an extension of my parents ' radical sentiments . It was the political aspects of my parents ' thinking that I took up , while the religious dimensions were cast off . At one of the CND Easter marches to demonstrate against ...
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... particular conjunc- ture , the postcolonial moment , a moment of crisis for the whole culture . As Salman Rushdie wrote in 1982 : I want to suggest that racism is not a side - issue in contemporary Britain ; that it's not a peripheral ...
... particular conjunc- ture , the postcolonial moment , a moment of crisis for the whole culture . As Salman Rushdie wrote in 1982 : I want to suggest that racism is not a side - issue in contemporary Britain ; that it's not a peripheral ...
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... particular group of colonisers : that was my task , from where I stood , the politics of my particular location , driven by my ' trans - generational haunting'.14 If Kettering , in both its manifestations , provided one point of depar ...
... particular group of colonisers : that was my task , from where I stood , the politics of my particular location , driven by my ' trans - generational haunting'.14 If Kettering , in both its manifestations , provided one point of depar ...
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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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.