Synopses & Reviews
The fifth volume in this acclaimed paperback series covers a wide range of topics, including Celtic Cornwall, Cornish politics, the Cornish economy, Cornish genetics, constructions of language and race in contemporary Cornwall, Cornish rugby, and education in Cornwall.
Contributions by
Rob Burton, Dick Cole, Bernard Deacon, Amy Hale, F. L. Harris, David Harvey, Lynette Olson, Philip Payton, Ronald Perry, F, Roff Rayner, Andy Seward and Garry Tregidga
About the Author
Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish and Australian Studies in the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the Universitys 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.
Table of Contents
Cornwall in Context - The New Cornish Historiography
Philip Payton
The Cornish - Identity and Genetics: An Alternative View
Dick Cole
The Tithing Framework of West Cornwall - A Proposed Pattern and an Interpretation of Territorial Origins
David Harvey
Tyranny in "Beaumans Meriasek"
Lynette Olson
Proto-industrialization and Potatoes - A Revised Narrative for 19th-century Cornwall
Bernard Deacon
Rethinking Celtic Cornwall - An Ethnographic Approach
Amy Hale
Genesis of the Celto-Cornish Revivial? - L.C. Duncombe-Jewell and the Cowethas Kelto-Kernuek
Amy Hale
Celtic Rvival and Economic Development in Edwardian Cornwall
Ronald Perry
The Politics of the Celto-Cornish Revival, 1886-1939
Gary Tregidga
A Passion to Exist - Cultural Hegemony and the Roots of the Cornish Identity
Rob Burton
Cornish Rugby and Cultural Identity - A Socio-historical Perspective
Andy Seward
Cornwall Education Week - 70 years on
F. Roff Rayner, F.L. Harris and Philip Payton
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