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

Name: Civilising Subjects Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867
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ISBN: 9780226313351

ISBN-10: 0226313352

ISBN-13: 9780226313351

Edition: 2002

Authors: Catherine Hall

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This volume argues that the empire was at the heart of 19th century Englishness. It tells stories of a group of English men and women who constructed themselves as colonizers. It then uses these studies as a means of exploring wider colonial issues.

Book details

List price: $46.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 556
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.90" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English



List of maps and illustrations


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Cast of Characters


Introduction


Prologue: The Making of an Imperial Man


Australia


New Zealand


St Vincent and Antigua


Jamaica



Colony and Metropole


Mapping Jamaica: The Pre-emancipation World in the Metropolitan Mind



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



Fault-lines in the Family of Man 1842-1845


Native agency and the Africa mission


The Baptist family


Brother Knibb



'A Jamaica of the Mind' 1820-1854


Phillippo's Jamaica


'A place of gloomy darkness'



Missionary Men and Morant Bay 1859-1866


Anthony Trollope and Mr Secretary Underhill


The trials of life


Morant Bay and after



Metropolis, Colony and Empire


Mapping the Midland Metropolis



The 'Friends of the Negro': Baptists and Abolitionists 1825-1842


The Baptists in Birmingham and the missionary public


Knowing 'the heathen'


Birmingham's 'Friends of the Negro'


The utopian years



The Limits of Friendship: Abolitionism in Decline 1842-1859


'A population intellectually at zero'


Carlyle's occasion


George Dawson and the politics of race and nationalism


Troubles for the missionary public



Town, Nation and Empire 1859-1867


New times


Morant Bay


Birmingham men


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index