Greater Britain: Volume 2

A young Cambridge graduate tours the English-speaking world and describes Victorian colonial culture and the British legacy in America.

Charles Wentworth Dilke (Author)

9781108003018, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

452 pages
21.6 x 2.6 x 14 cm, 0.57 kg

As a young man, Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843–1911), the Cambridge-educated Radical politician, spent two years touring the English-speaking world. This two-volume illustrated account of his travels was published in 1868, the year in which he first became a member of Parliament. Volume 2 opens as he leaves America in late 1866 for Australia and South Asia in search of British influences. This second leg of his journey confirmed for Dilke that England not only existed elsewhere beyond Great Britain, but that it spoke to the whole world through its cultural and societal offshoots across the entire globe. His discoveries of traditional English customs and lifestyles in the farther reaches of Australia, India and even Russia are recounted with pleasure and surprise. The book sheds light on British colonial culture at the height of the empire, through the eyes of a youthful, left-wing observer.

Part III: 1. Sydney
2. Rival colonies
3. Victoria
4. Squatter aristocracy
5. Colonial democracy
6. Protection
7. Labour
8. Woman
9. Victorian ports
10. Tasmania
11. Confederation
12. Adelaide
13. Transportation
14. Australia
15. Colonies
Part IV: 16. Maritime Ceylon
17. Kandy
18. Madras to Calcutta
19. Benares
20. Caste
21. Mohamedian cities
22. Simla
23. Colonisation
24. The 'Gazette'
25. Umritsur
26. Lahore
27. Our Indian army
28. Russia
29. Native states
30. Scinde
31. Overland routes
32. Bombay
33. The Mohurrum
34. English learning
35. India
36. Dependencies
37. France in the East
38. The English. Index.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]