Cornish Studies Volume 5
Cornish Studies: Five

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

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 revival 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;

Book reviews.

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.