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SUMMARY: Dicusses the contributions of Cornish settlers to Australia's history.
Author : Jim Faull
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
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SUMMARY: Dicusses the contributions of Cornish settlers to Australia's history.
Author : PHILIP. PAYTON
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2020-11
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ISBN : 9781743056554
In the 1840s Cornish miners and their families came pouring into South Australia to take their part in the new colony's great copper boom. They came to lend their home-grown expertise to extracting the rich ore that gave South Australia a world-wide reputation as being the Copper Kingdom.
Author : Philip Payton
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 31,47 MB
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1905816138
In this fully revised and up-dated edition of The Cornish Overseas, Philip Payton draws upon almost two decades of additional research undertaken by historians the world over since the first paperback version of this book was published in 2005. Now published by University of Exeter Press, this edition of Philip Payton’s classic history of Cornwall’s ‘great emigration’ takes account of numerous new sources to present a comprehensive, definitive picture of the Cornish diaspora. The Cornish Overseas begins by identifying some of the classic themes of Cornish emigration history, including Cornwall’s ‘emigration culture’ and ‘emigration trade’, and goes on to sketch early Cornish settlement in North America and Australia. The book then examines in detail the upsurge in Cornish emigration after 1815, showing how Cornwall became swiftly one of the great emigration regions of Europe. Discoveries of silver, copper and gold drew Cornish miners to Latin America, while Cornish agriculturalists were attracted to the United States and Canada. The discoveries of copper in South Australia and in Michigan during the 1840s offered new destinations for the emigrant Cornish, as did the Californian gold rush in 1849 and the Victorian gold rush in Australia in 1851. The crash of copper-mining in Cornwall in 1866 sped further waves of emigrants to countries as disparate as New Zealand and South Africa. In each of these places the Cornish remained distinctive as ‘Cousin Jacks’ and ‘Cousin Jennys’, establishing their own communities and making important contributions to the social, political and economic development of the new worlds. By 1914, however, Cornwall was no longer the international centre of mining expertise, the mantle having passed to America, Australia and South Africa, and Cornish emigration had dwindled as a result. Nonetheless, the Cornish at home and abroad remained aware of their global transnational identity, an identity that has been revitalised in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47788/KILX2994
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Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781904880042
The story of the migration of the Cornish people throughout the world is an epic. Payton is one of the world's leading scholars of the movement of Cornish people over time, both within the UK and to the major mining and agricultural districts of the world. This book follows new research over the last six years.
Author : James Jupp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2001-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521807891
Australia is one of the most ethnically diverse societies in the world today. From its ancient indigenous origins to British colonisation followed by waves of European then international migration in the twentieth century, the island continent is home to people from all over the globe. Each new wave of settlers has had a profound impact on Australian society and culture. The Australian People documents the dramatic history of Australian settlement and describes the rich ethnic and cultural inheritance of the nation through the contributions of its people. It is one of the largest reference works of its kind, with approximately 250 expert contributors and almost one million words. Illustrated in colour and black and white, the book is both a comprehensive encyclopedia and a survey of the controversial debates about citizenship and multiculturalism now that Australia has attained the centenary of its federation.
Author : Philip Payton
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859897969
Winner of the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for non-fiction. An investigation of the popular tradition of 'Australia's Little Cornwall': how one town in South Australia gained and perpetuated this identity into the twenty-first century. This book is about Moonta and its special place in the Cornish transnational identity. Today Moonta is a small town on South Australia's northern Yorke Peninsula; along with the neighbouring townships of of Wallaroo and Kadina, it is an agricultural and heritage tourism centre. In the second half of the nineteenth century, however, Moonta was the focus of a major copper mining industry. This book is about Moonta and its special place in the Cornish transnational identity. Today Moonta is a small town on South Australia's northern Yorke Peninsula; along with the neighbouring townships of of Wallaroo and Kadina, it is an agricultural and heritage tourism centre. In the second half of the nineteenth century, however, Moonta was the focus of a major copper mining industry. From the beginning, Moonta cast itself as unique among Cornish immigrant communities, becoming 'the hub of the universe' according to its inhabitants, forging the myth of 'Australia's Little Cornwall': a myth perpetuated by Oswald Pryor and others that survived the collapse of the copper mines in 1923--and remains vibrant and intact today.
Author : Philip Payton
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Author : Betty Walker
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008400296
1941. The Blitz rages over London. And even in Cornwall, the war is being fought...
Author : Max C. S. Beck
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781904880349
When the potato blight hits Cornwall in 1847, Jane Dunstan rescues her large family, first by the long, suffocating passage to South Australia, then 100 miles by bullock wagon to Burra's copper mines and finally by a 350-mile trek to the goldfields of Victoria, in this heroic story of suffering, hope and survival.
Author : Rosanne Hawke
Publisher : Omnibus Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 2015-04
Category : Children of immigrants
ISBN : 9781742990606
Kerenza isn't sure about leaving her village in Cornwall and taking a ship to Australia, but she can be brave for her dad's sake. Where he sees a farm, she and her Mam see endless bush and flies - millions of them - and hard work from dawn to dusk. It's almost too much to bear, but the Mallee has its own beauty, and family and new-found friends might just make it her home.