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Civilising Subjects (Paperback)
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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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