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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... Europe.16 The idea that colonies and their peoples were made by the colonisers was of course nothing new : what was new was the argument that this re- lation went both ways , even if in unequal relations of power . In the context of the ...
... Europe.16 The idea that colonies and their peoples were made by the colonisers was of course nothing new : what was new was the argument that this re- lation went both ways , even if in unequal relations of power . In the context of the ...
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... Europe was only Europe because of that other world : Jamaica was one domain of the constitu- tive outside of England . My reasons for choosing to work on Jamaica are perhaps self - evident by now : it was the site of empire to which I ...
... Europe was only Europe because of that other world : Jamaica was one domain of the constitu- tive outside of England . My reasons for choosing to work on Jamaica are perhaps self - evident by now : it was the site of empire to which I ...
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... European has become a man only through creating slaves and monsters ' . Europeans made history and made them- selves through becoming colonisers . For Fanon , decolonisation was in- evitably a violent phenomenon , for it meant ' the ...
... European has become a man only through creating slaves and monsters ' . Europeans made history and made them- selves through becoming colonisers . For Fanon , decolonisation was in- evitably a violent phenomenon , for it meant ' the ...
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... Europe ' , he insisted in a critical formulation , ' is literally the creation of the Third World . ' Europeans ... European empires and the different forms of colonialism which oper- ated within the British empire . On each of ...
... Europe ' , he insisted in a critical formulation , ' is literally the creation of the Third World . ' Europeans ... European empires and the different forms of colonialism which oper- ated within the British empire . On each of ...
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... to be defined and maintained ' . This meant that ' a grammar of dif- ference was continuously and vigilantly crafted as people in colonies refashioned and contested European claims to superiority'.48 The con- struction Introduction 17.
... to be defined and maintained ' . This meant that ' a grammar of dif- ference was continuously and vigilantly crafted as people in colonies refashioned and contested European claims to superiority'.48 The con- struction Introduction 17.
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.