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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... established . In the 1820s , despite many difficulties with the planters , his congregations grew . In 1831 he was ... establishing free villages . Thomas Carlyle ( 1795-1881 ) Son of a Dumfriesshire mason , educated at the parish school ...
... established . In the 1820s , despite many difficulties with the planters , his congregations grew . In 1831 he was ... establishing free villages . Thomas Carlyle ( 1795-1881 ) Son of a Dumfriesshire mason , educated at the parish school ...
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... established a new chapel in Brown's Town , where he stayed for the rest of his life . The same year he began a correspondence with Joseph Sturge , who visited him in 1837. In 1839 , with the help of his wife , he established the new ...
... established a new chapel in Brown's Town , where he stayed for the rest of his life . The same year he began a correspondence with Joseph Sturge , who visited him in 1837. In 1839 , with the help of his wife , he established the new ...
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... established in Jamaica in 1841. He was a great friend of Edward Underbill's , and they corresponded for many years . He retired in 1892 , and returned to England . Edward John Eyre ( 1815-1901 ) Third son of a Yorkshire vicar , and ...
... established in Jamaica in 1841. He was a great friend of Edward Underbill's , and they corresponded for many years . He retired in 1892 , and returned to England . Edward John Eyre ( 1815-1901 ) Third son of a Yorkshire vicar , and ...
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... established a new church nearby at Waldensia . His initial enthusi- asm for the island and its future was displaced by increasing gloom from the late 1840s , as he was beset by financial and other troubles . In 1853 they moved to ...
... established a new church nearby at Waldensia . His initial enthusi- asm for the island and its future was displaced by increasing gloom from the late 1840s , as he was beset by financial and other troubles . In 1853 they moved to ...
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... become a missionary . He was accepted as a trainee in 1819 , and sailed to Jamaica with his new wife , Hannah , in 1823. ( In 1822 he stayed with Thomas Morgan in Birmingham , and established a Cast of Characters xvii.
... become a missionary . He was accepted as a trainee in 1819 , and sailed to Jamaica with his new wife , Hannah , in 1823. ( In 1822 he stayed with Thomas Morgan in Birmingham , and established a Cast of Characters xvii.
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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