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

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

Hall, Catherine

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General World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 0226313352
ISBN13: 9780226313351
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 1 2002
Pages: 556
Weight: 1.82
Height: 1.64 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
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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