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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... Race , Ethnicity and Cultural History ( Routledge , London , 1996 ) , pp . 130-70 . An early version of the account of the missionaries in chapter 1 ap- peared as ' Missionary Stories : Gender and Ethnicity in England in the 1830s and ...
... Race , Ethnicity and Cultural History ( Routledge , London , 1996 ) , pp . 130-70 . An early version of the account of the missionaries in chapter 1 ap- peared as ' Missionary Stories : Gender and Ethnicity in England in the 1830s and ...
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... 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 direct use of what came to be called ' the race card ...
... 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 direct use of what came to be called ' the race card ...
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... race ' had passed into the common sense of Thatcherism and conservatism , provoking more explicit racial antagonisms . Race was an issue for British society in new ways by the late 1980s : racial thinking had been around for a very long ...
... race ' had passed into the common sense of Thatcherism and conservatism , provoking more explicit racial antagonisms . Race was an issue for British society in new ways by the late 1980s : racial thinking had been around for a very long ...
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... racial thinking of the 1970s and 1980s : a reworking of the legacy of Joseph Chamber- lain with his passionate belief in empire as essential to the well - being of Britain . Race , it was clear , was deeply rooted in English culture ...
... racial thinking of the 1970s and 1980s : a reworking of the legacy of Joseph Chamber- lain with his passionate belief in empire as essential to the well - being of Britain . Race , it was clear , was deeply rooted in English culture ...
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... racial and class thinking , with their complex logics of desire , the boundaries between rulers and ruled were necessarily unstable . Mixed - race children were particularly problematic , for how was the in between to be categorised ...
... racial and class thinking , with their complex logics of desire , the boundaries between rulers and ruled were necessarily unstable . Mixed - race children were particularly problematic , for how was the in between to be categorised ...
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.
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| Título | Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 |
| Autor | Catherine Hall |
| Edición | ilustrada, reimpresa |
| Editor | University of Chicago Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0226313352, 9780226313351 |
| Largo | 556 páginas |
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