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Cornwall: A History - Revised and updated edition (Hardcover)
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Cornwall: A History - Revised and updated edition (Hardcover)
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A new edition of Philip Payton's modern classic Cornwall: A
History, published now by University of Exeter Press, telling the
story of Cornwall from earliest times to the present day. Drawing
upon a wide range of original and secondary sources, it begins with
Cornwall's geology and prehistory, moving through Celtic times to
the creation of the kingdom of Kernow and its relationship with
neighbouring England. The political accommodation of medieval
Cornwall by the expanding English state through the twin
institutions of the Duchy and Stannaries is examined, as is the
flowering in the middle ages of literature in the Cornish language.
Resistance to English intrusion - in the rebellions of 1497 and
1549 and in the Civil War - is explored.So too is Cornwall's role
in the subsequent expansion of Britain's global influence, and
Cornwall as an early centre of the industrial revolution is also
discussed. Mining and Methodism became twin strands of an assertive
transnational identity which emigrant Cornish transplanted across
the globe in the nineteenth-century. Thereafter, as the book shows,
a vigorous Celtic revivalist movement championed the rebirth of the
Cornish language and Cornwall's status as a Celtic nation. At the
same time, tourism, with its emphasis on Cornish distinctiveness,
moved in the twentieth century to fill the gap left by the decline
of mining. The book concludes by examining the nature of
twenty-first century Cornwall, contrasting an apparent heightening
of Cornish consciousness with the increasing threats to Cornwall's
environment and identity.
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