Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867University of Chicago Press, 2002 - 556 стор. 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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... Research since 1999 , has provided an important intellectual space . The untimely death of Rachel Fruchter in July 1998 was a great blow . Her expeditions with me in Jamaica were a tremendous pleasure , and Acknowledgements ix I.
... Research since 1999 , has provided an important intellectual space . The untimely death of Rachel Fruchter in July 1998 was a great blow . Her expeditions with me in Jamaica were a tremendous pleasure , and Acknowledgements ix I.
Сторінка xiii
... important campaigners and orators on parliamentary reform outside the House of Commons in 1866-7 . Thomas Burchell ( 1799-1846 ) Son of a Tetbury wool - stapler , he was converted while an apprentice , and accepted as a trainee ...
... important campaigners and orators on parliamentary reform outside the House of Commons in 1866-7 . Thomas Burchell ( 1799-1846 ) Son of a Tetbury wool - stapler , he was converted while an apprentice , and accepted as a trainee ...
Сторінка xv
... importance of the town as a site of social improvement and reform , and was an architect of Birmingham's ' civic gospel ' . Walter Dendy ( ? -1881 ) A Wiltshire Baptist , he married a cousin of William Knibb , and sailed for Jamaica as ...
... importance of the town as a site of social improvement and reform , and was an architect of Birmingham's ' civic gospel ' . Walter Dendy ( ? -1881 ) A Wiltshire Baptist , he married a cousin of William Knibb , and sailed for Jamaica as ...
Сторінка xvii
... important church on East Queen's Street . Difficulties within the church embittered him , and he became increasingly sceptical of the potential of Africans to become fully civilised . In 1866 he expressed support for Eyre , and left ...
... important church on East Queen's Street . Difficulties within the church embittered him , and he became increasingly sceptical of the potential of Africans to become fully civilised . In 1866 he expressed support for Eyre , and left ...
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... important in providing a focus for communities strug- gling with the experience of war and major conflict . Fuller , as it was known by everybody , had always played a significant part in the life of the town . Dissent had had a ...
... important in providing a focus for communities strug- gling with the experience of war and major conflict . Fuller , as it was known by everybody , had always played a significant part in the life of the town . Dissent had had a ...
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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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Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 Catherine Hall Обмежений попередній перегляд - 2002 |
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