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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Page vi
... Knibb 150 161 3 ' A Jamaica of the Mind ' 1820-1854 174 Phillippo's Jamaica 174 ' A place of gloomy darkness ' 199 4 Missionary Men and Morant Bay 1859-1866 209 Anthony Trollope and Mr Secretary Underhill 209 The trials of life 229 ...
... Knibb 150 161 3 ' A Jamaica of the Mind ' 1820-1854 174 Phillippo's Jamaica 174 ' A place of gloomy darkness ' 199 4 Missionary Men and Morant Bay 1859-1866 209 Anthony Trollope and Mr Secretary Underhill 209 The trials of life 229 ...
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... Knibb , a print by George Baxter 163 8 Jubilee meeting at Kettering 164 9 Emancipation , 1 August 1834 181 10 Heathen practices at funerals 11 Visit of a missionary and his wife to a plantation village 188 191 14 George Dawson 12 ...
... Knibb , a print by George Baxter 163 8 Jubilee meeting at Kettering 164 9 Emancipation , 1 August 1834 181 10 Heathen practices at funerals 11 Visit of a missionary and his wife to a plantation village 188 191 14 George Dawson 12 ...
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... Knibb in chapter 1 draws on ' William Knibb and the Constitution of the New Black Subject ' , in Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern ( eds ) , Empire and Others : British Encoun- ters with Indigenous Peoples 1600-1850 ( UCL Press , London ...
... Knibb in chapter 1 draws on ' William Knibb and the Constitution of the New Black Subject ' , in Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern ( eds ) , Empire and Others : British Encoun- ters with Indigenous Peoples 1600-1850 ( UCL Press , London ...
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... Knibb , and then established a new church nearby at Waldensia . His initial enthusi- asm for the island and its future was displaced by increasing gloom from the late 1840s , as he was beset by financial and other troubles . In 1853 ...
... Knibb , and then established a new church nearby at Waldensia . His initial enthusi- asm for the island and its future was displaced by increasing gloom from the late 1840s , as he was beset by financial and other troubles . In 1853 ...
Page xvii
... Knibb stayed with the family in 1833 . William Morgan ( 1815- ? ) Third son of the above , he trained as a solicitor , and practised in Birm- ingham . From an early age he was engaged with missionary and aboli- tionist ventures , and ...
... Knibb stayed with the family in 1833 . William Morgan ( 1815- ? ) Third son of the above , he trained as a solicitor , and practised in Birm- ingham . From an early age he was engaged with missionary and aboli- tionist ventures , and ...
Contents
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 |
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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.