Description
Book Synopsis
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.
Trade Review
'Most articles emphasize Cornish 'difference', and place it in a wider context of European cultural and territorial diversity.' (Southern History, Vol. 18, 1997)
Table of Contents
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
