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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Página vii
... and his wife to a plantation village 191 12 Interior of Baptist chapel , Spanish Town 194 13 Joseph Sturge 356 14 George Dawson 364 15 Carrs Lane chapel 384 Acknowledgements I am deeply grateful to the Economic and Social.
... and his wife to a plantation village 191 12 Interior of Baptist chapel , Spanish Town 194 13 Joseph Sturge 356 14 George Dawson 364 15 Carrs Lane chapel 384 Acknowledgements I am deeply grateful to the Economic and Social.
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... NLJ PP Missionary Herald National Association for the Promotion of Social Science National Library of Jamaica Parliamentary Papers YCND Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Cast of Characters John Bright ( 1811-1889 ) John Bright.
... NLJ PP Missionary Herald National Association for the Promotion of Social Science National Library of Jamaica Parliamentary Papers YCND Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Cast of Characters John Bright ( 1811-1889 ) John Bright.
Página xv
... social improvement and reform , and was an architect of Birmingham's ' civic gospel ' . Walter Dendy ( ? -1881 ) A Wiltshire Baptist , he married a cousin of William Knibb , and sailed for Jamaica as a missionary ( with the Burchells ) ...
... social improvement and reform , and was an architect of Birmingham's ' civic gospel ' . Walter Dendy ( ? -1881 ) A Wiltshire Baptist , he married a cousin of William Knibb , and sailed for Jamaica as a missionary ( with the Burchells ) ...
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... social conformity , assumptions about the truth of the faith , a fear of critical thinking , a limited intellectual vision . The nar- rowness of this world was offset , however , by the wider communities to which the congregation was ...
... social conformity , assumptions about the truth of the faith , a fear of critical thinking , a limited intellectual vision . The nar- rowness of this world was offset , however , by the wider communities to which the congregation was ...
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... social forces , as internal contradictions and sources of destabilization within the decolonized society , or between them and the wider global system.24 It was this new configuration with its repetition , the same but different , which ...
... social forces , as internal contradictions and sources of destabilization within the decolonized society , or between them and the wider global system.24 It was this new configuration with its repetition , the same but different , which ...
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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