CIVILISING SUBJECTS by Catherine Hall - 2002

University of Chicago Press, 2002-05-01. 1. paperback. Used: Good.

University of Chicago Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xviii, 556pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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 both in the colonies and at home. In Jamaica, a group of Baptist missionaries hoped to make African-Jamaicans into people like themselves, only to be disappointed when the project proved neither simple nor congenial to the black men and women for whom they hoped to fashion new selves. And in Birmingham, abolitionist enthusiasm… Read More

University of Chicago Press, 2002-05-01. 1. paperback. Used:Good.

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Univ of Chicago Pr, 2002. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 556 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.75 inches.

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2002. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 556 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.75 inches.

The University of Chicago Press. paperback. New. 144x98x26. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing