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

"Despite some initial obeisance to the household deities of post-Colonial and Subaltern Studies, CIVILISING SUBJECTS is a work of traditional social history. This is both its strengths and its weakness. We are given the most detailed picture possible of the social worlds, the lives and objectives, of a small group of men.....Catherine Hall has told the stories of the Baptist missionaries in dense detail and with great feeling.Hall, Catherine is the author of 'Civilising Subjects Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830-1867', published 2002 under ISBN 9780226313351 and ISBN 0226313352.