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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... missionaries . He came to regard Jamaica as his home , and despite many difficulties remained on the island , where he died in 1885 . John Angell James ( 1785-1859 ) Son of a draper , he was converted and decided to become a minister ...
... missionaries . He came to regard Jamaica as his home , and despite many difficulties remained on the island , where he died in 1885 . John Angell James ( 1785-1859 ) Son of a draper , he was converted and decided to become a minister ...
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... missionaries , their wives and children , their supporters and friends , their enemies and critics . Who were the men who decided to be missionaries ? Where did they come from ? What did they think they were doing ? How was their vision ...
... missionaries , their wives and children , their supporters and friends , their enemies and critics . Who were the men who decided to be missionaries ? Where did they come from ? What did they think they were doing ? How was their vision ...
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... missionaries in Jamaica . It tells the story of the formation of the Baptist Missionary Society , the beginnings of the mission to Jamaica , and the decision of three young men - William Knibb , Thomas Burchell and James Mursell ...
... missionaries in Jamaica . It tells the story of the formation of the Baptist Missionary Society , the beginnings of the mission to Jamaica , and the decision of three young men - William Knibb , Thomas Burchell and James Mursell ...
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... missionaries came to realise , to a greater or lesser extent , that they could not control the destinies of others , or indeed of themselves . Meanwhile , in England opinion was shifting too , and attempts by the missionaries and their ...
... missionaries came to realise , to a greater or lesser extent , that they could not control the destinies of others , or indeed of themselves . Meanwhile , in England opinion was shifting too , and attempts by the missionaries and their ...
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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 |
538 | |
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