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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... town , Villa de la Vega , today Spanish Town , had access to two good harbours . The main activity of the colonists was supplying fresh provisions to passing ships and exporting hides and lard to Cuba . As early as 1517 , the Spaniards ...
... town , Villa de la Vega , today Spanish Town , had access to two good harbours . The main activity of the colonists was supplying fresh provisions to passing ships and exporting hides and lard to Cuba . As early as 1517 , the Spaniards ...
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... Spanish Town, the oldest continually habituated town in Jamaica. Five hundred and fifty years of history, starting a few years after the island of Jamaica was first found—“discovered”—by a Christopher Columbus of Italy in charge of ...
... Spanish Town, the oldest continually habituated town in Jamaica. Five hundred and fifty years of history, starting a few years after the island of Jamaica was first found—“discovered”—by a Christopher Columbus of Italy in charge of ...
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... Spanish Town Cathedral , or the St. Catherine Parish Church , was built by the British on the site of a Spanish church in the late 1600s . Spanish Town Spanish Town is in the southeast , on the Rio Cobre . Settled by the Spanish , it ...
... Spanish Town Cathedral , or the St. Catherine Parish Church , was built by the British on the site of a Spanish church in the late 1600s . Spanish Town Spanish Town is in the southeast , on the Rio Cobre . Settled by the Spanish , it ...
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... Spanish Town served as the capital of Jamaica. After England captured Jamaica from Spain in 1655, Spanish Town remained Jamaica's capital town, but the new English colonists started a process of 'anglicization'.8 James Robertson, the ...
... Spanish Town served as the capital of Jamaica. After England captured Jamaica from Spain in 1655, Spanish Town remained Jamaica's capital town, but the new English colonists started a process of 'anglicization'.8 James Robertson, the ...
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... Spanish Town Spanish Town,the former capital,founded in 1534 and some 23 km west of Kingston (bus from HalfWay Tree and from Orange Street),is historicallythe most interesting ofJamaica's towns. The first settlement was called Villa de ...
... Spanish Town Spanish Town,the former capital,founded in 1534 and some 23 km west of Kingston (bus from HalfWay Tree and from Orange Street),is historicallythe most interesting ofJamaica's towns. The first settlement was called Villa de ...
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.