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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... Birmingham Daily Post British and Foreign Anti - Slavery Society Baptist Herald and Friend of Africa Birmingham Journal Baptist Magazine Baptist Missionary Society Birmingham Reference Library Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Dictionary ...
... Birmingham Daily Post British and Foreign Anti - Slavery Society Baptist Herald and Friend of Africa Birmingham Journal Baptist Magazine Baptist Missionary Society Birmingham Reference Library Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Dictionary ...
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... Birmingham . A powerful preacher and lecturer , he soon estab- lished a reputation in Birmingham and beyond . In 1846 his followers built a new church for him , the Church of the Saviour , dedicated to a spirit of free inquiry . He ...
... Birmingham . A powerful preacher and lecturer , he soon estab- lished a reputation in Birmingham and beyond . In 1846 his followers built a new church for him , the Church of the Saviour , dedicated to a spirit of free inquiry . He ...
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... Birmingham Baptist Union , he was also secretary of the Birmingham Anti - Slavery Society in the 1830s . In 1840 he served as one of the honorary secretaries of the Anti - Slavery Convention . In the 1840s and 1850s he worked closely ...
... Birmingham Baptist Union , he was also secretary of the Birmingham Anti - Slavery Society in the 1830s . In 1840 he served as one of the honorary secretaries of the Anti - Slavery Convention . In the 1840s and 1850s he worked closely ...
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... Birmingham as a student in the Department of History . Birmingham was not a city that appealed to me . Leeds in the 1950s was proud of its radical traditions and its labour movement . Birmingham , represented by Liberals from its ...
... Birmingham as a student in the Department of History . Birmingham was not a city that appealed to me . Leeds in the 1950s was proud of its radical traditions and its labour movement . Birmingham , represented by Liberals from its ...
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... Birmingham . Travelling on the bus as a mixed - race couple , or looking for a flat to rent , was a difficult venture , to say the least . In the late 1960s and 1970s , however , it was student politics and then being a mother to my ...
... Birmingham . Travelling on the bus as a mixed - race couple , or looking for a flat to rent , was a difficult venture , to say the least . In the late 1960s and 1970s , however , it was student politics and then being a mother to my ...
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 |
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Page 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.