{"product_id":"civilising-subjects-9780745618210","title":"Civilising Subjects","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Morris D. Forkasch prize for the best book in British history 2002\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCivilising Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e 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''.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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 thems\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCivilising Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e provides a compelling account of the ways in which the various imperial projects of the nineteenth century shaped domestic political, evangelical, and cultural agendas. This detailed study of Victorian empire and English national culture is sure to become the definitive study of the decade and beyond.\" \u003ci\u003eKathleen Wilson, author of The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCivilising Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e does for colonial history what E.P. Thompson's \u003ci\u003eThe Making of the English Working Class\u003c\/i\u003e did for social history. It triumphantly achieves what many have hoped to do: show how empire impacted on metropolis while the home culture shaped colonial development. This is a work of great scholarship, but also of passion and imagination.\" \u003ci\u003eRoy Porter, author of The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'This is a brilliant piece of detective work, uncovering half-forgotten debates and hidden connections linking England and Jamaica in the first half of the Victorian era...The argument that all collective identities are formed through drawing up boundaries between \"us\" and inferior \"others\" has become a cliche...Hall is the first historian to give a really convincing account of how that happened. Her story also illuminates how West Indians, and their descendents in Britian, came to occupy such an ambivalent \"inside-outsider\" place in that picture. \u003ci\u003eCivilising Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e is not just important for historians of Britain and empire. Anyone concerned with issues of race, citizenship and identity in Britiain today can learn a great deal from it.' \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book has the fine detail and rich colours of a Vermeer painting.\" \u003ci\u003eDenis Judd, Historian, BBC History Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"...a landmark text, bringing national and imperial history into conjunction and providing a significant contribution to the new cultural history. \u003ci\u003eCivilising Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e desrves to be widely read.\" \u003ci\u003eMichael Pickering, Journal of Contemporary European Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Civilising Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force and promises to deepen our understanding of how Empire rebounded back on Britain.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSocial History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eWhat a book! What a breeze of fresh air in British colonial history! Let there be no doubt about it: this book is cultural history at its best and most advanced.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJournal for the Study of British Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eList of Maps and Illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue: The Making of an Imperial Man.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAustralia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSt.Vincent and Antigua.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJamaica.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Colony and Metropole:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMapping Jamaica:the Pre-Emancipation World in the Metropolitan Mind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. The Missionary Dream 1820-1842:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Baptist Missionary Society and the Missionary Project.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMissionaries and Planters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe War of Representation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Constitution of the New Black Subject.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Free Villages.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Faultlines in the Family of Man 1842-1845:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNative Agency and the Africa Mission.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Baptist Family.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrother Knibb.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. A Jamaica of the Mind 1820-1854:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhillippo's \u003ci\u003eJamaica.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'A Place of Gloomy Darkness'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Missionary Men and Morant Bay 1859-1866:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnthony Trollope and Mr.Secretary Underhill.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Trials of Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMorant Bay and After.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Metropolis, Colony and Empire:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMapping the Midland Metropolis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. The 'Friends of the Negro': Baptists and Abolitionists 1825-42:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Baptists in Birmingham.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Friends of the Negro'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Utopian Years.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. The Limits of Friendship: Abolitionism in Decline 1842-59:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'A Population Intellectually at Zero'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarlyle's Occasion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Dawson and the Politics of Race and Nationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTroubles for the Missionary Public.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Town, Nation and Empire 1859-1867:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Times.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMorant Bay.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBirmingham Men.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138147713367,"sku":"9780745618210","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745618210.jpg?v=1751918184","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/civilising-subjects-9780745618210","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}