Cornish Studies Volume 3

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-85989-476-0
Verlag: University of Exeter Press

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 335 g

The third volume in the acclaimed paperback series. the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Payton, Philip

Payton, Philip, Prof.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Davies, Mel

George, Ken

Harrsion, Eric

Hurst, John

Lay, Patricia

Payton, Philip, Prof.

Spalding, Adrian

Thornton, Paul

Turk, Stella

Williams, Carol

Williams, Malcolm

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Collective Action and the Cornish Miner in Australia: An Early Repudiation of the 'Individualistic' Thesis, Mel Davis

3. Not What They Seemed? Cornish Assisted Immigrants in New South Wales, 1837-77, Patricia Lay

4. Cornish Emigration in Response to Changes in the International Copper Market in the 1860's, Philip Payton

5. The Great Western Railway and the Cornish-Celtic Revival, Philip Payton and Paul Thornton

6. Which Base for Revived Cornish?, Ken George

7. Voice from a White Silence: the Manuscripts of Jack Clemo, John Hurst

8. The Significance of cornish and Scillonian Natural History, Stella Turk

9. The Importance of Metaliferous Mining Sites in Cornwall for Wildlife (with Special Reference to Insects), Adrian Spalding

10. Movers and Stayers: A Comparison of Migratory and Non-Migratory Groups in Cornwall 1981-1991, Malcolm Williams and Eric Harrison

11. Housing in Cornwall: a Two-Tier System?, Carol Williams

12. Book Reviews

Über Autor(innen)

Payton, Philip, Prof.
Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and is the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.

He has written extensively on Cornish topics, and recent books include A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (2005), Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia’s Little Cornwall (2007), John Betjeman and Cornwall: ‘The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist’ (2010), and (edited with Alston Kennerley and Helen Doe), The Maritime History of Cornwall (2014). He has recently been awarded South Australian Historian of the Year 2017 by the History Council of South Australia.

Payton, Philip, Prof.
Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and is the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.

He has written extensively on Cornish topics, and recent books include A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (2005), Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia’s Little Cornwall (2007), John Betjeman and Cornwall: ‘The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist’ (2010), and (edited with Alston Kennerley and Helen Doe), The Maritime History of Cornwall (2014). He has recently been awarded South Australian Historian of the Year 2017 by the History Council of South Australia.

Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish and Australian Studies in the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University’s Cornwall campus. He is also the author of A.L. Rowse in Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot and numerous other books on Cornwall and the Cornish.