Philip Payton

Gebundenes Buch

The Cornish Overseas

A History of Cornwall's 'Great Emigration'

Beschreibung

The story of the migration of the Cornish people throughout the world is an epic, told here by one of the world's leading scholars of the movement of Cornish people. Accessible narrative includes the US, Canada, Australia, and S Africa. Fully revised and updated with almost two decades of additional research undertaken by historians worldwide.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Exeter Press
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1002g
• ISBN-13: 9781905816101
• ISBN-10: 1905816103
• Artikelnr.: 54988724