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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... church tower ( c.1840 ) 26 98888 68 80 4 5 Baptist chapel and dwelling house at Sligoville Clarkson Town 126 129 6 Africa receiving the Gospel 146 7 William Knibb , a print by George Baxter 163 8 Jubilee meeting at Kettering 164 9 ...
... church tower ( c.1840 ) 26 98888 68 80 4 5 Baptist chapel and dwelling house at Sligoville Clarkson Town 126 129 6 Africa receiving the Gospel 146 7 William Knibb , a print by George Baxter 163 8 Jubilee meeting at Kettering 164 9 ...
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... 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 the Empire ' , in Clare Midgley ...
... 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 the Empire ' , in Clare Midgley ...
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... church split , a source of much distress to him . John Clarke ( 1802-1879 ) Cousin of John Clark ( above ) , he was inspired by hearing a missionary preach , and became a teacher and trainee missionary . He sailed to Jamaica in 1829 ...
... church split , a source of much distress to him . John Clarke ( 1802-1879 ) Cousin of John Clark ( above ) , he was inspired by hearing a missionary preach , and became a teacher and trainee missionary . He sailed to Jamaica in 1829 ...
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... church for him , the Church of the Saviour , dedicated to a spirit of free inquiry . He enthusiastically supported the struggles for Italian , Polish and Hungarian freedom . By the late 1850s he had become increasingly convinced of the ...
... church for him , the Church of the Saviour , dedicated to a spirit of free inquiry . He enthusiastically supported the struggles for Italian , Polish and Hungarian freedom . By the late 1850s he had become increasingly convinced of the ...
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... church on East Queen's Street . Difficulties within the church embittered him , and he became increasingly sceptical of the potential of Africans to become fully civilised . In 1866 he expressed support for Eyre , and left Jamaica to ...
... church on East Queen's Street . Difficulties within the church embittered him , and he became increasingly sceptical of the potential of Africans to become fully civilised . In 1866 he expressed support for Eyre , and left Jamaica to ...
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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