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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... Abolitionists 1825-1842 290 The Baptists in Birmingham and the missionary public Knowing the heathen ' 290 301 Birmingham's ' Friends of the Negro ' 309 The utopian years 325 6 The Limits of Friendship : Abolitionism in Decline 1842 ...
... Abolitionists 1825-1842 290 The Baptists in Birmingham and the missionary public Knowing the heathen ' 290 301 Birmingham's ' Friends of the Negro ' 309 The utopian years 325 6 The Limits of Friendship : Abolitionism in Decline 1842 ...
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... abolitionist ventures , he played a significant role in the development of the Congregational Union . In 1840 he represented Birmingham and Jamaica at the Anti - Slavery Convention . William Knibb ( 1803-1845 ) Born in Kettering , he ...
... abolitionist ventures , he played a significant role in the development of the Congregational Union . In 1840 he represented Birmingham and Jamaica at the Anti - Slavery Convention . William Knibb ( 1803-1845 ) Born in Kettering , he ...
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... abolitionist ventures , he was a founder member of the town's Anti - Slavery Society and a lifelong friend of John Angell James and Joseph Sturge . William Knibb stayed with the family in 1833 . William Morgan ( 1815- ? ) Third son of ...
... abolitionist ventures , he was a founder member of the town's Anti - Slavery Society and a lifelong friend of John Angell James and Joseph Sturge . William Knibb stayed with the family in 1833 . William Morgan ( 1815- ? ) Third son of ...
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... abolitionist ventures , he was central to the struggle for the abolition of apprenticeship . In 1837 he travelled to the West Indies to investigate conditions for himself . Founder of the BFASS in 1840 , he was a key figure in the Anti ...
... abolitionist ventures , he was central to the struggle for the abolition of apprenticeship . In 1837 he travelled to the West Indies to investigate conditions for himself . Founder of the BFASS in 1840 , he was a key figure in the Anti ...
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... abolitionist population had very close connections with the Baptist missionaries in Jamaica . The island , its peoples , its geography and its politics were familiar to the Birmingham public in the early to mid - nineteenth century ...
... abolitionist population had very close connections with the Baptist missionaries in Jamaica . The island , its peoples , its geography and its politics were familiar to the Birmingham public in the early to mid - nineteenth century ...
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 |
538 | |
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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.