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.
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.
'Most articles emphasize Cornish 'difference', and place it in a wider context of European cultural and territorial diversity.' (Southern History, Vol. 18, 1997)
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.
1. Introduction
2. Cornwall in Context: The New Cornish Historiography, Philip Payton
3. The Cornish: Identity and Genetics - An Alternative View, Dick Cole
4. The Tithing Framework of West Cornwall: A Proposed Pattern and an Interpretation of Territorial Origins, David Harvey
5. Tyranny in Beunans Meriasek, Lynette Olson
6. Proto-industrialisation and Potatoes: A Revised Narrative for Nineteenth-Century Cornwall, Bernard Deacon
7. Rethinking Celtic Cornwall: An Ethnographic Approach, Amy Hale
8. Genesis of the Celto-Cornish Revival? L.C. Duncombe-Jewell and the Cowethas Kelto-Kernuak, Amy Hale
9. Celtic Revival and Economic Development in Edwardian Cornwall, Ronald Perry
10. The Politics of the Celto-Cornish Revival, 1886-1939, Garry Tregidga
11. A Passion to Exist: Cultural Hegemony and the Roots of Cornish Identity, Rob Burton
12. Cornish Rugby and Cultural Identity: A Socio-historical Perspective, Andy Seward
Research Note
13. Cornwall Education Week: Seventy Years On, F. Roff Rayner, F.L. Harris, Philip Payton
14. Book Review
Notes on Contributors