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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... about , Jamaica and the relation between metropole and colony , and to Gail , who helped me to know England differently . Catherine Hall Wivenhoe , June 2001 Abbreviations ASR BDP BFASS BH BJ BM BMS BRL CND Acknowledgements xi.
... about , Jamaica and the relation between metropole and colony , and to Gail , who helped me to know England differently . Catherine Hall Wivenhoe , June 2001 Abbreviations ASR BDP BFASS BH BJ BM BMS BRL CND Acknowledgements xi.
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... relations with some of his co - workers . Between 1848 and 1852 he was in England , where he published on African languages . He then returned to Jamaica . Robert William Dale ( 1829-1895 ) Son of a dealer in hat trimmings , his mother ...
... relations with some of his co - workers . Between 1848 and 1852 he was in England , where he published on African languages . He then returned to Jamaica . Robert William Dale ( 1829-1895 ) Son of a dealer in hat trimmings , his mother ...
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... relation to Jamaica . A new experience for a white woman , albeit one of the defining experiences of being black , as Frantz Fanon has so eloquently explored . But it was also an exciting place , so different from England , so ...
... relation to Jamaica . A new experience for a white woman , albeit one of the defining experiences of being black , as Frantz Fanon has so eloquently explored . But it was also an exciting place , so different from England , so ...
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... relation of power is broken . ' The white man prefers ' , he argued , ' to keep the black man at a certain human ... relations of power between white and black , the hierarchies that were encoded in those two paradigms . But the ...
... relation of power is broken . ' The white man prefers ' , he argued , ' to keep the black man at a certain human ... relations of power between white and black , the hierarchies that were encoded in those two paradigms . But the ...
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... relation to the Northamptonshire town in which I was born ? And why did the Baptist chapel occupy pride of place in the village ? Who was William Knibb , and why was he remembered ? What part did nonconformists play in the making of ...
... relation to the Northamptonshire town in which I was born ? And why did the Baptist chapel occupy pride of place in the village ? Who was William Knibb , and why was he remembered ? What part did nonconformists play in the making of ...
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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