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

by Catherine Hall

Book Overview

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: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"