Civilising Subjects: Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830-1867
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226313352
ISBN13:9780226313351
Release Date:May 2002
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:556 Pages
Weight:1.82 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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