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- Title
A Woman Passing Through: Helen Caddick and the Maturation of the Empire in British Central Africa.
- Authors
Wolf, James
- Abstract
Helen Caddick was known as an intrepid traveler because she had toured much of the non-western world during the peak of British world influence. Caddick was part of a tourist frontier in British Central Africa. She went on a pleasure trip without business, sponsor, nor a need for glory or fame. At the respectable age of fifty-five, she followed the footsteps of the forgers of empire in Central Africa: the explorers exemplified by David Livingstone, the missionaries of the Universities, Church of Scotland and Free Church of Scotland missions, the commercial pioneers John and Frederick Moir, the adventurers like Frederick Lugard, and the colonial visionaries such as H. H. Johnston. Caddick went to Central Africa because she was curious about their lives and the lives of the African peoples who were obliged to accommodate European settlements and values. Although her primary contribution to understanding the imperial process in the world was an observer, Caddick also has top be seen as a participant. Caddick contributed to the integration of empire, to the shaping of popular ideas and attitudes. Her observations and the observations of tourists who followed her make a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the expansion and integration of the British Empire in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
- Subjects
CENTRAL Africa; CADDICK, Helen; TOURISM; TRAVEL; FREE Church of Scotland Mission; BRITISH colonies
- Publication
Journal of Popular Culture, 1996, Vol 30, Issue 3, p35
- ISSN
1540-5931
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.0022-3840.1996.00035.x