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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... empire , and its domestic population was visibly diverse . One historical power configuration , the colonial , had ... empire , and how they knew it . What representations of empire circulated in a mid - nineteenth Introduction ||
... empire , and its domestic population was visibly diverse . One historical power configuration , the colonial , had ... empire , and how they knew it . What representations of empire circulated in a mid - nineteenth Introduction ||
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... empire circulated in a mid - nineteenth - century town , and in what ways , if any , did the associated knowledge shape polit- ical and other discourses ? Did the empire make any difference ' at home ' ? The case study has been central ...
... empire circulated in a mid - nineteenth - century town , and in what ways , if any , did the associated knowledge shape polit- ical and other discourses ? Did the empire make any difference ' at home ' ? The case study has been central ...
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... empire did Birmingham Baptists have ? What forms of belonging to town , nation and empire did nonconformists in the middle decades of the nineteenth century share ? Was it the same or different for men and women ? How did it change over ...
... empire did Birmingham Baptists have ? What forms of belonging to town , nation and empire did nonconformists in the middle decades of the nineteenth century share ? Was it the same or different for men and women ? How did it change over ...
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... empire . On each of those sites different groups of colonisers engaged in different colonial projects . Travellers ... empire . The empire changed across time : there was the First Empire , the Second Empire , the ' informal empire ...
... empire . On each of those sites different groups of colonisers engaged in different colonial projects . Travellers ... empire . The empire changed across time : there was the First Empire , the Second Empire , the ' informal empire ...
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... empires . Both men and women were colonisers , both in the empire and at home . Their spheres of action were delineated , their gendered and racialised selves always in play.37 In the postcolonial moment we are perhaps more aware of the ...
... empires . Both men and women were colonisers , both in the empire and at home . Their spheres of action were delineated , their gendered and racialised selves always in play.37 In the postcolonial moment we are perhaps more aware of the ...
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 |
538 | |
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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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