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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... thinking , a limited intellectual vision . The nar- rowness of this world was offset , however , by the wider communities to which the congregation was attached , not only throughout Britain , but across the empire and the globe . The ...
... thinking , a limited intellectual vision . The nar- rowness of this world was offset , however , by the wider communities to which the congregation was attached , not only throughout Britain , but across the empire and the globe . The ...
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... thinking that I took up , while the religious dimensions were cast off . At one of the CND Easter marches to demonstrate against the nuclear base at Aldermaston , I met my partner - to - be , Stuart Hall , a Jamaican who had come to ...
... thinking that I took up , while the religious dimensions were cast off . At one of the CND Easter marches to demonstrate against the nuclear base at Aldermaston , I met my partner - to - be , Stuart Hall , a Jamaican who had come to ...
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... thinking had been around for a very long time , but the bringing of it to consciousness , the making explicit of the ways in which the society is ' raced ' , to use Toni Morri- son's term , is another matter . Driving along the north ...
... thinking had been around for a very long time , but the bringing of it to consciousness , the making explicit of the ways in which the society is ' raced ' , to use Toni Morri- son's term , is another matter . Driving along the north ...
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... 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 . Not ...
... 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 . Not ...
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... thinking and being constituted through the Caribbean and the ' mother country ' , in , but not fully part of , Europe.16 The idea that colonies and their peoples were made by the colonisers was of course nothing new : what was new was ...
... thinking and being constituted through the Caribbean and the ' mother country ' , in , but not fully part of , Europe.16 The idea that colonies and their peoples were made by the colonisers was of course nothing new : what was new was ...
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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