Cornish Studies Volume 3
Cornish Studies: Three

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.

Contributions by
Mel Davies, Ken George, Eric Harrsion, John Hurst, Patricia Lay, Philip Payton, Adrian Spalding, Paul Thornton, Stella Turk, Carol Williams and Malcolm Williams

Contents:

Introduction, Philip Payton;

Collective action and the Cornish miner - an early repudiation of the "individualistic" thesis, Mel Davies;

Backgronds, origins, occupations - Cornish assisted immigrants in New South Wales 1838-1857, Patricia Lay;

Cornish emigration in response to changes in the international copper market in the 1860s, Philip Payton;

A passion to exist - cultural hegemony and the roots of the Cornish, Rob Burton;

Jack Clemo as poet - new light from the manuscripts, John Hurst;

The Great Western Railway and the Cornish-Celtic revival, Paul Thornton;

Kammbronn man - myths of race and langauge in contemporary Cornwall, Adrian Lee;

The importance of metaliferrous mining sites in Cornwall for wildlife, Adrian Spalding;

The significance of Cornish natural history, Stella Turk;

Book review - Mark Stoyle's "Loyalty and Locality".

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.