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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... culture media and the transformation of religion the sacred senses: visual, material and audio culture religion, and the ethics of media and culture. This collection is an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers ...
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... cultures », au sens ethnologique du terme, ou, dans une perspective plus anthropologique, d'une caractérisation de l'humanité de l'homme, comme être de culture, par opposition à la nature ? S'agitil de la « culture générale » que les ...
... cultures », au sens ethnologique du terme, ou, dans une perspective plus anthropologique, d'une caractérisation de l'humanité de l'homme, comme être de culture, par opposition à la nature ? S'agitil de la « culture générale » que les ...
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... culture, organ culture and cell culture Cells, removed from animal tissue or whole animals, will continue to grow if supplied with nutrients and growth factors. This process is called cell culture. It occurs in vitro ('in glass') as ...
... culture, organ culture and cell culture Cells, removed from animal tissue or whole animals, will continue to grow if supplied with nutrients and growth factors. This process is called cell culture. It occurs in vitro ('in glass') as ...
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... Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society‖ (Kłoskowska ...
... Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society‖ (Kłoskowska ...
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... culture au profit de l'amélioration locale . SITUATION DE LA CULTURE EN EUROPE , EN FRANCE et dans OISE . LE DEPA DÉPARTEMENT DE SEINE ET tied geomis errone Examen rapide des états de l'Europe relativement à leur situation culturale ...
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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.