Making Moonta: The Invention of 'Australia's Little Cornwall' - Softcover

Philip Payton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0859897966 ISBN 13: 9780859897969

Publisher: University of Exeter Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and is the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.

He has written extensively on Cornish topics, and recent books include A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (2005), Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia’s Little Cornwall (2007), John Betjeman and Cornwall: ‘The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist’ (2010), and (edited with Alston Kennerley and Helen Doe), The Maritime History of Cornwall (2014). He has recently been awarded South Australian Historian of the Year 2017 by the History Council of South Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859897966
• ISBN 13: 9780859897969
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256