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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... tion , the comments from readers at Polity and the University of Chicago Press have been very helpful . David Held and the editorial team at Polity have been most supportive . Since this book has been a long time in the making ...
... tion , the comments from readers at Polity and the University of Chicago Press have been very helpful . David Held and the editorial team at Polity have been most supportive . Since this book has been a long time in the making ...
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... tion ' . After the events at Morant Bay in 1865 , Carlyle led the support for Governor Eyre and celebrated him as a hero . In his Shooting Niagara : And After ? ( 1867 ) , Carlyle's fear of democracy was linked with his con- tempt for ...
... tion ' . After the events at Morant Bay in 1865 , Carlyle led the support for Governor Eyre and celebrated him as a hero . In his Shooting Niagara : And After ? ( 1867 ) , Carlyle's fear of democracy was linked with his con- tempt for ...
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... , The Black Jacobins , C. L. R. James demonstrated the complex dialectic running across and between colony and metropole . He challenged the assump- tion that causality always ran from the centre to the 8 Introduction.
... , The Black Jacobins , C. L. R. James demonstrated the complex dialectic running across and between colony and metropole . He challenged the assump- tion that causality always ran from the centre to the 8 Introduction.
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Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 Catherine Hall. tion that causality always ran from the centre to the colony , and that metropolitan politics were unrelated to those of the periphery . James knew the extent to ...
Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 Catherine Hall. tion that causality always ran from the centre to the colony , and that metropolitan politics were unrelated to those of the periphery . James knew the extent to ...
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... tion in 1834 , freed men and women themselves believed that Baptist support had been essential to the ending of slavery , and joined the church in large numbers . The Baptists remain a powerful presence in contem- porary Jamaica ...
... tion in 1834 , freed men and women themselves believed that Baptist support had been essential to the ending of slavery , and joined the church in large numbers . The Baptists remain a powerful presence in contem- porary Jamaica ...
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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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