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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2011
      20 July 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511702563
      9781108003001
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511702563
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 444 Pages
      • Subjects:
      American History: General Interest, Area Studies, American Studies, Historical Geography, History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
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    Subjects:
    American History: General Interest, Area Studies, American Studies, Historical Geography, History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
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    As a young man, Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843–1911), the Cambridge-educated Radical politician who went on to campaign for votes for women and labourers, legalisation of trade unions, and universal schooling, spent two years touring the English-speaking world. This two-volume illustrated account of his journey was published in 1868, the year in which he first entered Parliament. Volume 1 describes his travels across the United States, where he arrived aboard The Saratoga, landing at Chesapeake Bay in Virginia on 20 June 1866. Dilke explored the reconstructing American South, the bustling eastern seaboard, the vast plains of the Midwest, the magnificent Rocky Mountain range, and the diverse landscape and peoples of California before venturing south into Mexico and departing for Polynesia and the Pacific islands. He thoughtfully discusses the legacy of British colonial culture in America, and its continuing diffusion via America to other parts of the world.

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