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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... Paul Gilroy's phrase , ' in the constitutive relation- ships with outsiders that both found and temper a self - conscious sense of western civilisation'.21 In this study it is Jamaica which constitutes one kind Introduction 9.
... Paul Gilroy's phrase , ' in the constitutive relation- ships with outsiders that both found and temper a self - conscious sense of western civilisation'.21 In this study it is Jamaica which constitutes one kind Introduction 9.
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... civilisation here , barbarism / sav- agery there . But that gap was a slippery one , which was constantly being reworked . In one sense Jamaica was a colony . Colonies were thought of as offshoots of the mother country , new places ...
... civilisation here , barbarism / sav- agery there . But that gap was a slippery one , which was constantly being reworked . In one sense Jamaica was a colony . Colonies were thought of as offshoots of the mother country , new places ...
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... civilisation , no long historical past . In learning their masters ' language , black men took on a world and a culture a culture which fixed them as essentially inferior . Drawing on his clinical experience as a psychiatrist and his ...
... civilisation , no long historical past . In learning their masters ' language , black men took on a world and a culture a culture which fixed them as essentially inferior . Drawing on his clinical experience as a psychiatrist and his ...
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... civilisation ' , with white Anglo- Saxons at the apex , became common.42 But these two discourses , that of cultural differentialism and that of biological racism , were , as Stuart Hall has argued , not two different systems , but ...
... civilisation ' , with white Anglo- Saxons at the apex , became common.42 But these two discourses , that of cultural differentialism and that of biological racism , were , as Stuart Hall has argued , not two different systems , but ...
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... civilisation which they share and which is not shared by ' whatever oriental other , the sepoys or the dervishes , is in season at the time ' . De Quincy was constantly ter- rorised by his fear of infection from the East , argues ...
... civilisation which they share and which is not shared by ' whatever oriental other , the sepoys or the dervishes , is in season at the time ' . De Quincy was constantly ter- rorised by his fear of infection from the East , argues ...
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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