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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... racial differ- ences ? How did race work in nonconformist thinking about English- ness ? 29 It is everyday racial thinking that is at the heart of my investigation , its ' stubborn persistence ' in English culture , and the ways in ...
... racial differ- ences ? How did race work in nonconformist thinking about English- ness ? 29 It is everyday racial thinking that is at the heart of my investigation , its ' stubborn persistence ' in English culture , and the ways in ...
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... racial types , and natural scientists began to make human races an object of study , labour- ing to produce a schema out of the immense varieties of human life , within a context of relatively few physical variations . On the one hand ...
... racial types , and natural scientists began to make human races an object of study , labour- ing to produce a schema out of the immense varieties of human life , within a context of relatively few physical variations . On the one hand ...
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... racial thinking over three decades , the historical specificity of the distinctions made between such pairs of terms as good / bad , docile / hostile , industri- ous / lazy , civilisation / barbarism , are very apparent . The ' good ...
... racial thinking over three decades , the historical specificity of the distinctions made between such pairs of terms as good / bad , docile / hostile , industri- ous / lazy , civilisation / barbarism , are very apparent . The ' good ...
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... racial others . Both coloniser and colonised were terms the meanings of which could never be fixed . Yet this did not mean that these terms did not have political effectivity : far from it . This mapping of difference across nation and ...
... racial others . Both coloniser and colonised were terms the meanings of which could never be fixed . Yet this did not mean that these terms did not have political effectivity : far from it . This mapping of difference across nation and ...
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... racial vocabulary of biological difference . The popular lecturer and preacher George Dawson , disciple of Thomas Carlyle , was a critical figure in harnessing the energies of Birmingham men to a new cause , that of European ...
... racial vocabulary of biological difference . The popular lecturer and preacher George Dawson , disciple of Thomas Carlyle , was a critical figure in harnessing the energies of Birmingham men to a new cause , that of European ...
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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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.