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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... Christian Religion , Studies in Church History 34 , published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by the Boydell Press , 1998 , pp . 362-90 . Some of the material in chapter 4 draws on ' Going a - Trolloping : Imperial Man Travels ...
... Christian Religion , Studies in Church History 34 , published for the Ecclesiastical History Society by the Boydell Press , 1998 , pp . 362-90 . Some of the material in chapter 4 draws on ' Going a - Trolloping : Imperial Man Travels ...
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... a leading theologian and public man . One of the great pulpit preachers of his gen- eration , he believed in the responsibilities of Christian citizenship . George Dawson ( 1821-1877 ) The son of a Baptist xiv Cast of Characters.
... a leading theologian and public man . One of the great pulpit preachers of his gen- eration , he believed in the responsibilities of Christian citizenship . George Dawson ( 1821-1877 ) The son of a Baptist xiv Cast of Characters.
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... Christian dimensions of a connection with other parts of the world could be displaced by a focus on internationalism . But there were uncomfortable moments as to quite what the nature of these con- nections were . A visiting West ...
... Christian dimensions of a connection with other parts of the world could be displaced by a focus on internationalism . But there were uncomfortable moments as to quite what the nature of these con- nections were . A visiting West ...
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... Christian version of the family of man and the Left's universal humanism had both acted as screens for me , allowing me to avoid the full recognition of the relations of power between white and black , the hierarchies that were encoded ...
... Christian version of the family of man and the Left's universal humanism had both acted as screens for me , allowing me to avoid the full recognition of the relations of power between white and black , the hierarchies that were encoded ...
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... Christian universalism which assumed that all peoples were the descendants of Adam and Eve , and that the differences between peoples could be explained by differences in culture and climate . But this did not mean that all were equal ...
... Christian universalism which assumed that all peoples were the descendants of Adam and Eve , and that the differences between peoples could be explained by differences in culture and climate . But this did not mean that all were equal ...
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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