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 12
... imperial history . This was the time after the expansion of empire which followed the recovery from the loss of the United States and before the expansion of the late nineteenth century . It was the time of free trade and of the ...
... imperial history . This was the time after the expansion of empire which followed the recovery from the loss of the United States and before the expansion of the late nineteenth century . It was the time of free trade and of the ...
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... imperial histories , cognisant of the centrality of masculinity , femininity and sexuality to the making of nations and empires . Both men and women were colonisers , both in the empire and at home . Their spheres of action were ...
... imperial histories , cognisant of the centrality of masculinity , femininity and sexuality to the making of nations and empires . Both men and women were colonisers , both in the empire and at home . Their spheres of action were ...
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... imperial subjects and the making of the white feminist woman . This is a woman constituted and interpellated not only as bourgeois individual but as ' individualist ' . This stake is represented ' , she continues , ' on two regis- ters ...
... imperial subjects and the making of the white feminist woman . This is a woman constituted and interpellated not only as bourgeois individual but as ' individualist ' . This stake is represented ' , she continues , ' on two regis- ters ...
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... imperial power produces a sense of national solidarity ; ' for it enables the differences between one class and another to be fully acknowledged ' , only then to be recognised as trivial in comparison with the civilisation which they ...
... imperial power produces a sense of national solidarity ; ' for it enables the differences between one class and another to be fully acknowledged ' , only then to be recognised as trivial in comparison with the civilisation which they ...
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... imperial man , Edward John Eyre , provides the pro- logue to this book . Eyre's narrative , spanning the decades from the 1830s to the late 1860s , linking metropole and empire , making connections between the Antipodes and the ...
... imperial man , Edward John Eyre , provides the pro- logue to this book . Eyre's narrative , spanning the decades from the 1830s to the late 1860s , linking metropole and empire , making connections between the Antipodes and 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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Página 14 - The settler makes history; his life is an epoch, an Odyssey. He is the absolute beginning: "This land was created by us"; he is the unceasing cause: "If we leave, all is lost, and the country will go back to the Middle Ages.