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Civilising subjects : colony and metropole in the English imagination, 1830-1867

This volume argues that the empire was at the heart of 19th century Englishness. It tells stories of a group of English men and women who constructed themselves as colonizers. It then uses these studies as a means of exploring wider colonial issues
Print Book, English, 2002
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002
History
xviii, 556 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780226313344, 9780226313351, 0226313344, 0226313352
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pt. 1. Colony and metropole. The missionary dream 1820-1842
Fault-lines in the family of man 1842-1845
'A Jamaica of the mind' 1820-1854
Missionary men and Morant Bay 1859-1866
pt. 2. Metropolis, colony and empire. The 'friends of the Negro': Baptists and Abolitionists 1825-1842
The limits of friendship: abolitionism in decline 1842-1859
Town, nation and empire 1859-1867