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Civilising Subjects: Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830-1867
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Civilising Subjects: Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830-1867 Paperback - 2002

by Hall, Catherine

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University Of Chicago Press, 2002. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:9780226313351
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  • Title Civilising Subjects: Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830-1867
  • Author Hall, Catherine
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 556
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5805495
  • ISBN 9780226313351 / 0226313352
  • Weight 1.82 lbs (0.83 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.14 x 1.64 in (23.01 x 15.60 x 4.17 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - History - Victoria, 1837-1901, Great Britain - Civilization - 19th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002283737
  • Dewey Decimal Code 909.097

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From the rear cover

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 and detailed study of the "racing" of Englishness will be invaluable for students and scholars of imperial and cultural history.

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About the author

Catherine Hall is a professor of history at University College, London. She is the editor of Cultures of Empire: A Reader and coauthor of Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850 and Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867.

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