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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... James to become his assistant at Carrs Lane in 1853 , he became co - pastor in 1854. At James's death in 1859 he became sole pastor . A champion of nonconformity and liberalism in Birming- ham , he established a national reputation from ...
... James to become his assistant at Carrs Lane in 1853 , he became co - pastor in 1854. At James's death in 1859 he became sole pastor . A champion of nonconformity and liberalism in Birming- ham , he established a national reputation from ...
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... James ( 1785-1859 ) Son of a draper , he was converted and decided to become a minister . In 1805 he became pastor at Carrs Lane in Birmingham , and stayed there until his death . The chapel rapidly became a centre of town life , and James ...
... James ( 1785-1859 ) Son of a draper , he was converted and decided to become a minister . In 1805 he became pastor at Carrs Lane in Birmingham , and stayed there until his death . The chapel rapidly became a centre of town life , and James ...
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... James and Joseph Sturge . William Knibb stayed with the family in 1833 . William Morgan ( 1815- ? ) Third son of the above , he trained as a solicitor , and practised in Birm- ingham . From an early age he was engaged with missionary ...
... James and Joseph Sturge . William Knibb stayed with the family in 1833 . William Morgan ( 1815- ? ) Third son of the above , he trained as a solicitor , and practised in Birm- ingham . From an early age he was engaged with missionary ...
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... James Baldwin , ' Stranger in the village ' The origins of this book lie in my own history . I was born in Kettering , Northamptonshire , in 1946. My father , John Barrett , was a Baptist minister , my mother a budding historian who had ...
... James Baldwin , ' Stranger in the village ' The origins of this book lie in my own history . I was born in Kettering , Northamptonshire , in 1946. My father , John Barrett , was a Baptist minister , my mother a budding historian who had ...
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... in San - Domingue , The Black Jacobins , C. L. R. James demonstrated the complex dialectic running across and between colony and metropole . He challenged the assump- tion that causality always ran from the centre to the 8 Introduction.
... in San - Domingue , The Black Jacobins , C. L. R. James demonstrated the complex dialectic running across and between colony and metropole . He challenged the assump- tion that causality always ran from the centre to the 8 Introduction.
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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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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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.