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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... British Library , then housed in the British Museum , and I have also found the London Library a wonder- ful resource . Megan Doolittle's research assistance at the University of Essex was invaluable . Ruth Percy and Ralph Kingston at ...
... British Library , then housed in the British Museum , and I have also found the London Library a wonder- ful resource . Megan Doolittle's research assistance at the University of Essex was invaluable . Ruth Percy and Ralph Kingston at ...
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... British , when black feminists asked who belonged , and in what ways , to the collective ' we ' of a feminist sister- hood . That question was posed very sharply in the editorial meetings of Feminist Review , a journal which I had ...
... British , when black feminists asked who belonged , and in what ways , to the collective ' we ' of a feminist sister- hood . That question was posed very sharply in the editorial meetings of Feminist Review , a journal which I had ...
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... British subjects . But ' heathen ' , ' subject ' and ' civilisa- tion ' were all terms with complex meanings : each apparently named one category while masking ambivalent understandings . Colonial subjects were , and were not , the same ...
... British subjects . But ' heathen ' , ' subject ' and ' civilisa- tion ' were all terms with complex meanings : each apparently named one category while masking ambivalent understandings . Colonial subjects were , and were not , the same ...
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... British command executed 439 people , flogged more than 600 men and women , and burnt more than 1,000 homes . A mixed - race member of the Jamaican House of Assembly , George William Gordon , was hanged.2 The initial response of the British ...
... British command executed 439 people , flogged more than 600 men and women , and burnt more than 1,000 homes . A mixed - race member of the Jamaican House of Assembly , George William Gordon , was hanged.2 The initial response of the British ...
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... British Caribbean islands , at the heart of ' the great experiment ' of the abolitionists - the attempt to construct a successful free - labour economy with black labour . By mid - century this experiment looked , from the British line ...
... British Caribbean islands , at the heart of ' the great experiment ' of the abolitionists - the attempt to construct a successful free - labour economy with black labour . By mid - century this experiment looked , from the British line ...
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.