{"product_id":"civilising-subjects-colony-and-metropole-in-the-english-imagination-1830-1867-paperback","title":"Civilising Subjects: Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830-1867 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCatherine Hall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did the English get to be English? In \u003ci\u003eCivilising Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This absorbing study of the \"racing\" of Englishness will be invaluable for imperial and cultural historians.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did the English get to be English? In \u003ci\u003eCivilising Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHall 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis absorbing and detailed study of the racing of Englishness will be invaluable for students and scholars of imperial and cultural history.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Hall\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of history at University College, London. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eCultures of Empire: A Reader\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eFamily Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDefining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 556\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.64 x 9.06 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45281139359846,"sku":"9780226313351","price":88.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/d21qTlVPc0wxOW1lc1dGa0pya1JxUT09.webp?v=1773906630","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/civilising-subjects-colony-and-metropole-in-the-english-imagination-1830-1867-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}