Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867University of Chicago Press, 2002 - 556 pages 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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... enslaved peoples and the market for a complex of sugar plan- tations , to Ocho Rios , with its modern economy tied to tourism , we came to the small village of Kettering . I was immediately struck by its name , and by the large Baptist ...
... enslaved peoples and the market for a complex of sugar plan- tations , to Ocho Rios , with its modern economy tied to tourism , we came to the small village of Kettering . I was immediately struck by its name , and by the large Baptist ...
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... enslaved people , did not stay conveniently over there ; they were part of the fabric of England , inside not outside , raising the question as to what was here and what was there , threatening dissolution of the gap on which the ...
... enslaved people , did not stay conveniently over there ; they were part of the fabric of England , inside not outside , raising the question as to what was here and what was there , threatening dissolution of the gap on which the ...
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... notions of freedom and liberty associated with the free - born Englishman ? Or planters whose freedom , they were convinced , entailed the right to own enslaved men and women ? 34 And who had the power to Introduction 15.
... notions of freedom and liberty associated with the free - born Englishman ? Or planters whose freedom , they were convinced , entailed the right to own enslaved men and women ? 34 And who had the power to Introduction 15.
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... enslaved man acting as gang leader on a plantation exercised forms of power over others which an enslaved woman serving as maid- of - all - work in an urban household could not hope to emulate . The black lover of a white plantation ...
... enslaved man acting as gang leader on a plantation exercised forms of power over others which an enslaved woman serving as maid- of - all - work in an urban household could not hope to emulate . The black lover of a white plantation ...
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... enslaved women of their imaginations . No binary , whether of class , race , or gender , is adequate to these multiple con- structions of difference . Spivak is working with Jacques Derrida's notion of différance . Derrida argues that ...
... enslaved women of their imaginations . No binary , whether of class , race , or gender , is adequate to these multiple con- structions of difference . Spivak is working with Jacques Derrida's notion of différance . Derrida argues that ...
Table des matières
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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abolitionist Aboriginal African amongst argued associated Australia Baptist missionaries became Birm Birmingham Britain British Burchell Caribbean Carlyle celebrated century chapel Chartism Christian church civilisation Colonial Office coloured committee congregations culture Dale debate Edward Edward John Eyre emancipation empire England English enslaved established European Eyre Eyre's Falmouth free villages freedom friends gender George Dawson governor Hall heathen Henderson History House Ibid imperial India island Jamaica Jamaica Committee John Angell James Joseph Sturge Kingston labour land Letters London meeting minister mission Morant Bay Morgan nation negro organisation Oughton pastor peasantry Phillippo planters political population R. W. Dale race racial reform reported Samuel Oughton settlers sionary slave slavery social South Australia Spanish Town sugar Thomas Thomas Burchell tion Trollope Underhill University Press Victorian West Indian West Indies William Knibb women wrote Zealand
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