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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... public 363 370 Morant Bay 7 Town , Nation and Empire 1859-1867 New times Birmingham men 380 380 406 424 Epilogue 434 Notes 442 Bibliography Index 507 536 Illustrations 1 The British Empire 1837-1870 2 Map of Jamaica vi Contents.
... public 363 370 Morant Bay 7 Town , Nation and Empire 1859-1867 New times Birmingham men 380 380 406 424 Epilogue 434 Notes 442 Bibliography Index 507 536 Illustrations 1 The British Empire 1837-1870 2 Map of Jamaica vi Contents.
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... Empire and Others : British Encoun- ters with Indigenous Peoples 1600-1850 ( UCL Press , London , 1998 ) , pp . 303-24 . Some of the material in chapter 3 appeared as ' A Jamaica of the Mind : Gender , Colonialism and the Missionary ...
... Empire and Others : British Encoun- ters with Indigenous Peoples 1600-1850 ( UCL Press , London , 1998 ) , pp . 303-24 . Some of the material in chapter 3 appeared as ' A Jamaica of the Mind : Gender , Colonialism and the Missionary ...
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... empire , African - Caribbeans , Africans , and South and East Asians and others , have settled , had children , and changed these ' contact zones ' of the second half of the twentieth century into something new . In the late 1940s the ...
... empire , African - Caribbeans , Africans , and South and East Asians and others , have settled , had children , and changed these ' contact zones ' of the second half of the twentieth century into something new . In the late 1940s the ...
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... empire . But the unspoken racial hierarchy which was the underlying assumption of that humanist universalism had not ... empire , which was so characteris- tic of the period of decolonisation , was prevalent . The empire was best ...
... empire . But the unspoken racial hierarchy which was the underlying assumption of that humanist universalism had not ... empire , which was so characteris- tic of the period of decolonisation , was prevalent . The empire was best ...
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... empire the chickens came home to roost : in the case of Britain , in the guise of those once imperial subjects who ' came home ' . While first- generation migrants felt compelled for the most part to make the best they could of the ...
... empire the chickens came home to roost : in the case of Britain , in the guise of those once imperial subjects who ' came home ' . While first- generation migrants felt compelled for the most part to make the best they could of the ...
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.