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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... population of c.76,000 , it is pre- dominantly white , and has a very different feel from those cities where the peoples of the erstwhile empire , African - Caribbeans , Africans , and South and East Asians and others , have settled ...
... population of c.76,000 , it is pre- dominantly white , and has a very different feel from those cities where the peoples of the erstwhile empire , African - Caribbeans , Africans , and South and East Asians and others , have settled ...
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... population of the West Midlands . In the election of 1964 race and immi- gration had surfaced explicitly in Wolverhampton when Patrick Gordon Walker , the Labour MP , was defeated by the Conservative candidate Peter Griffiths , who made ...
... population of the West Midlands . In the election of 1964 race and immi- gration had surfaced explicitly in Wolverhampton when Patrick Gordon Walker , the Labour MP , was defeated by the Conservative candidate Peter Griffiths , who made ...
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... populations , were a different matter . The West Indies were awkwardly placed between these two categories ... population were black or ' coloured ' that is , of mixed race and were not indigenous peoples who , according to ...
... populations , were a different matter . The West Indies were awkwardly placed between these two categories ... population were black or ' coloured ' that is , of mixed race and were not indigenous peoples who , according to ...
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... population was visibly diverse . One historical power configuration , the colonial , had been displaced by another , the postcolonial : Problems of dependency , under - development and marginalization , typical of the ' high ' colonial ...
... population was visibly diverse . One historical power configuration , the colonial , had been displaced by another , the postcolonial : Problems of dependency , under - development and marginalization , typical of the ' high ' colonial ...
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... population lazy , its planter class decadent and archaic . The riot at Morant Bay , following in the wake of the ... populations and the need for strong government . The government's initial support for Eyre soon came under attack ...
... population lazy , its planter class decadent and archaic . The riot at Morant Bay , following in the wake of the ... populations and the need for strong government . The government's initial support for Eyre soon came under attack ...
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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