Catherine Hall

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Catherine Hall is a controversial feminist historian from the UK, and currently Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at UCL.

The author of several key books in British social history and ideology, she attempts to assess the interrelating axes of class and gender, to which she has recently added race. Her work explores the interrelation between metropole and colony in an attempt to rewrite the narrative of certain aspects of 'British history' in the mid nineteenth century empire period. In this we might see a postcolonial trend in contemporary British historical writing, with other established British historians such as David Cannadine or Linda Colley and new writers, including scholars from African and African-American or African-British backgrounds, also turning their attention to the complex mid-nineteenth century period of Britain's empire and its wider overseas influence as developed through trade agreements. Without more historical writing about this fascinating period, including its religio-social and political movements, and other cultural contexts, as well the possible roles of gender and race, Hall's studies, primarily of the latter, may overshadow alternative perspectives such as multi-culturalism and the commonality of human struggle, experience and values.

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Civilising Subjects: Metropole And Colony In The English Imagination, 1830-1867 (2002)
Cultures Of Empire: Colonisers In Britain And The Empire In Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries (2000, editor)
Defining The Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender And The British Reform Act Of 1867 (2000, editor, with Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall)
Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850 (1987, new ed. 2002, with Leonore Davidoff)
Gendered Nations: Nationalisms And Gender Order In The Long Nineteenth Century (2000 editor, with Ida Blom and Karen Hagemann)
White, Male And Middle-Class: Explorations In Feminism And History (1992)