Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 956 g
Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830 - 1867
Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 956 g
ISBN: 978-0-7456-1820-3
Verlag: Polity Press
Winner of the Morris D. Forkasch prize for the best book in British history 2002
Civilising Subjects argues that the empire was at the heart of nineteenth-century Englishness. English men and women in the mid-nineteenth century imagined themselves at the centre of a great empire: their mental and emotional maps encompassed 'Aborigines' in Australia, 'negroes' in Jamaica, 'coolies' in the Indies. This sense of the other provided boundaries and markers of difference: ways of knowing who was 'civilised' and who was 'savage'.
This fascinating book tells intertwined stories of a particular group of Englishmen and women who constructed themselves as colonisers. Hall then uses these studies as a means of exploring wider colonial and cultural issues. One story focuses on the Baptist missionaries in Jamaica and their efforts to build a new society in the wake of emancipation. Their hope was to make Afro-Jamaican men and women into people like themselves. Disillusionment followed as it emerged that the making of 'new selves' was not as simple as they had thought, and that black men and women had minds and cultural resources of their own. The second story tells the tale of 'the midland metropolis', Birmingham, and the ways in which its culture was infused with empire. Abolitionist enthusiasm dominated the town in the 1830s but by the 1860s the identity of 'friend of the negro' had been superseded by a harsher racial vocabulary. Birmingham's 'manly citizens' imagined the non-white subjects of empire as different kinds of men from themselves.
These two detailed studies, of Birmingham and Jamaica, are set within their wider context: the making of metropole and colony and of coloniser and colonised. The result is an absorbing study of the 'racing' of Englishness, which will be invaluable for students and scholars of British imperial and cultural history.
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Acknowledgements.
List of Maps and Illustrations.
Introduction.
Prologue: The Making of an Imperial Man.
Australia.
New Zealand.
St.Vincent and Antigua.
Jamaica.
Part I: Colony and Metropole:.
Mapping Jamaica:the Pre-Emancipation World in the Metropolitan Mind.
1. The Missionary Dream 1820-1842:.
The Baptist Missionary Society and the Missionary Project.
Missionaries and Planters.
The War of Representation.
The Constitution of the New Black Subject.
The Free Villages.
2. Faultlines in the Family of Man 1842-1845:.
Native Agency and the Africa Mission.
The Baptist Family.
Brother Knibb.
3. A Jamaica of the Mind 1820-1854:.
Phillippo's Jamaica.
'A Place of Gloomy Darkness'.
4. Missionary Men and Morant Bay 1859-1866:.
Anthony Trollope and Mr.Secretary Underhill.
The Trials of Life.
Morant Bay and After.
Part II: Metropolis, Colony and Empire:.
Mapping the Midland Metropolis.
5. The 'Friends of the Negro': Baptists and Abolitionists 1825-42:.
The Baptists in Birmingham.
'Friends of the Negro'.
The Utopian Years.
6. The Limits of Friendship: Abolitionism in Decline 1842-59:.
'A Population Intellectually at Zero'.
Carlyle's Occasion.
George Dawson and the Politics of Race and Nationalism.
Troubles for the Missionary Public.
7. Town, Nation and Empire 1859-1867:.
New Times.
Morant Bay.
Birmingham Men.
Epilogue.
Notes.
Bibliography.
