Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 by Catherine Hall

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

Catherine Hall

556 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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