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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... question of what it means to be a migrant , how to create some new kind of place for themselves in postcolonial Britain . For some the issue became how to construct a new way of being , that of the black Briton , and here black was an ...
... question of what it means to be a migrant , how to create some new kind of place for themselves in postcolonial Britain . For some the issue became how to construct a new way of being , that of the black Briton , and here black was an ...
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... was also the time when questions of culture , of language and of representation began to be understood as central to the work of colonialism . While anti- colonialism had focused on the expulsion of colonising powers and 6 Introduction.
... was also the time when questions of culture , of language and of representation began to be understood as central to the work of colonialism . While anti- colonialism had focused on the expulsion of colonising powers and 6 Introduction.
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... question was posed very sharply in the editorial meetings of Feminist Review , a journal which I had worked on for some years and which was forced to rethink its practice at every level by the group of black feminists who had agreed to ...
... question was posed very sharply in the editorial meetings of Feminist Review , a journal which I had worked on for some years and which was forced to rethink its practice at every level by the group of black feminists who had agreed to ...
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... question as to what was here and what was there , threatening dissolution of the gap on which the distinction between colony and metropole was constructed . Europe was only Europe because of that other world : Jamaica was one domain of ...
... question as to what was here and what was there , threatening dissolution of the gap on which the distinction between colony and metropole was constructed . Europe was only Europe because of that other world : Jamaica was one domain of ...
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... Question ' had an impact locally as well as nationally . The period with which I am concerned , 1830-1867 , is ... questions concern the ways in which a particular group of English men and women , mainly Baptists and other varieties of ...
... Question ' had an impact locally as well as nationally . The period with which I am concerned , 1830-1867 , is ... questions concern the ways in which a particular group of English men and women , mainly Baptists and other varieties of ...
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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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