'The Cornish Overseas', Philip Payton's major study of the epic 'Great Migration' of the Cornish people is now available in a completely revised and updated edition, which also for the first time is available in softcover.
In this book, the author shows how emigration had become a fact of life long before the mining crisis of the late 1860s and 1870s ... in fact starting as early as 1815 and continuing until well after the First World War, and he demonstrates the important role played by the Cornish in the development of the international mining economy. But farmers and other occupational groups are not forgotten as Dr Payton unveils his extraordinary story from the remotest Andes and the bonanza goldfield of California to the arid expanses of Australia or South Africa, taking in along the way such places as Tahiti, Prince Edward Island, Cuba and India. Wherever they went, the Cornish left their distinctive mark.
Wherever they went, the Cornish - the Cousin Jacks and Cousin Jennies - left their distinctive cultural mark, remembered today across the globe from Mexico to New Zealand, and Philip Payton makes sense of this international Cornish identity which even at the end of the Millennium is of great significance to Cornwall and its way of life.
Related Products:
Cornwall: A History (paperback)
Contents:
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
1. A Culture of Mobility
2. The Rage for Emigration
3. Bonanzas and Bugbears: Latin America
4. From Famine to Frontier: The Hungry Forties and the First American Mining Book
5. South Australia's Copper Kingdom
6. Gold! The Californian Rush
7. Gold! The Victorian Rush
8. Crashed Copper, Tumbled Tin and 'the Largest Cornish Communities Beyond Land's End'
9. New Frontiers: Australia
10. New Frontiers: North America
11. 'But a Suburb of Cornwall': South Africa
12. 'All Hail' Old Cornwall! May Thy Glory Last': The End of an Era
13. An Enduring Identity? The Cornish in a Globalised World
Notes and References
Index
