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Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 Paperback - 2002
by Hall, Catherine
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- Title Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867
- Author Hall, Catherine
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1
- Condition Used:Good
- Pages 556
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date 2002-05-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0226313352
- 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)
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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.
