Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Civilising subjects :

Hall, Catherine, 1946-

Civilising subjects : colony and metropole in the English imagination, 1830-1867 / Catherine Hall. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002. - xviii, 556 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-535) and index.

Introduction 1 Prologue: The Making of an Imperial Man 23 Australia 27 New Zealand 42 St Vincent and Antigua 47 Jamaica 57 Part I Colony and Metropole 67 Mapping Jamaica: The Pre-emancipation World in the Metropolitan Mind 69 1 The Missionary Dream 1820-1842 84 The Baptist Missionary Society and the missionary project 86 Missionaries and planters 98 The war of representation 107 The constitution of the new black subject 115 The free villages 120 2 Fault-lines in the Family of Man 1842-1845 140 Native agency and the Africa mission 140 The Baptist family 150 Brother Knibb 161 3 'A Jamaica of the Mind' 1820-1854 174 Phillippo's Jamaica 174 'A place of gloomy darkness' 199 4 Missionary Men and Morant Bay 1859-1866 209 Anthony Trollope and Mr Secretary Underhill 209 The trials of life 229 Morant Bay and after 243 Part II Metropolis, Colony and Empire 265 Mapping the Midland Metropolis 267 5 The 'Friends of the Negro': Baptists and Abolitionists 1825-1842 290 The Baptists in Birmingham and the missionary public 290 Knowing 'the heathen' 301 Birmingham's 'Friends of the Negro' 309 The utopian years 325 6 The Limits of Friendship: Abolitionism in Decline 1842-1859 338 'A population intellectually at zero' 338 Carlyle's occasion 347 George Dawson and the politics of race and nationalism 363 Troubles for the missionary public 370 7 Town, Nation and Empire 1859-1867 380 New times 380 Morant Bay 406 Birmingham men 424

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Imperialism--Social aspects--Great Britain.


Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.
Great Britain--History--William IV, 1830-1837.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.

DA16. / H18 2002