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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bernard Deacon |
ISBN: | 0708320325 0708320317 9780708320327 9780708320310 |
OCLC Number: | 70764947 |
Description: | 247 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | 1. British Cornwall: from west Wales to Cornwall, 500-1100 -- 2. Medieval Cornwall: distinctiveness and dependence, 1100-1495 -- 3. Rebellious Cornwall: the turbulent centuries, 1495-1648 -- 4. Industrializing Cornwall: economic and cultural transformation, 1640s-1840s -- 5. Reformed Cornwall: from material to mythical difference, 1810s-1860s -- 6. Post-industrial Cornwall: blending into Britain, 1870s-1914 -- 7. Romanticized Cornwall: visionaries and escapists, 1880-1960 -- 8. New Cornwall: population flows and policy follies, 1960-2005. |
Series Title: | Histories of Europe. |
Other Titles: | Cornwall : |
Responsibility: | Bernard Deacon. |
Abstract:
Imagined as both Celtic country and English county, Cornwall is a land of contrasts. This book traces the tensions produced by its history, from an independent British kingdom through a culturally distinct medieval province and a prominent industrial region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to its location as a post-industrial paradox.
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'Bernard Deacon has done an excellent job in collating, condensing and analyzing this huge range of work. This is a useful and readable book dealing with often complex and conflicting issues and events in a lucid and highly informative way.'Anthony Wood, Planet 190 Read more...
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