Cornish Studies Volume 1

Contributions by Lyn Bryant, Mary Buck, Bernard Deacon, Keith H. Hyatt, Edwin Jaggard, Margaret James-Korany, Prof. Philip Payton, Paul Thornton, Caroline Vink, Malcolm Williams, Harry Woodhouse Edited by Prof. Philip Payton

Publication date:

01 December 1993

Length of book:

168 pages

Publisher

University of Exeter Press

Dimensions:

229x150mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780859894135

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

1. Introduction

2. 'a...concealed envy against the English': a Note on the Aftermath of the 1497 Rebellions in Cornwall, Philip Payton

3. Liberals and Conservatives in West cornwall, 1832-1868, Edwin Jaggard

4. 'Blue Books' as Sources for Cornish Emigration History, Margaret James-Korany

5. 'Face the Music' - Church and Chapel Bands in Cornwall, Harry Woodhouse

6. Re-inventing Cornwall: Culture Change on the European Periphery, Bernard Deacon

7. Cornwall and Changes in the 'Tourist Gaze', Paul Thornton

8. Housing the Cornish: Containing the Crisis, Mary Buck, Malcolm Williams and Lyn Bryant

9. 'Be Forever Cornish!' Some Observations on the Ethnoregional Movement in Contemporary Cornwall, Caroline Vink

10. The Acarine Fauna of the Isles of Scilly, Keith H. Hyatt

'Most articles emphasize Cornish 'difference', and place it in a wider context of European cultural and territorial diversity.' (Southern History, Vol. 18, 1997)