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Civilising Subjects : Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867
Civilising Subjects Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 18301867
Author: Catherine Hall
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226313344
ISBN-10: 0226313344
Publication Date: 5/1/2002
Pages: 556
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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