Making Moonta
The Invention of 'Australia's Little Cornwall'
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 neighboring townships of of Wallaroo and Kadina, it is an agricultural and heritage tourism center. In the second half of the nineteenth century, however, Moonta was the focus of a major copper mining industry. Making Moonta explores Moonta and its copper-mining hinterland in the years after 1860, charting the arrival of hundreds of Cornish immigrants and the transplantation of distinctive Cornish cultural patterns. From the beginning, Moonta cast itself as unique amo…
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- ISBN: 978-0-85989-795-2
- EAN: 9780859897952
- Produktnummer: 3094376
- Verlag: University of Exeter Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 284 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D0.0 cm
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies, University of Exeter, and is Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University's Cornwall campus. He has written widely on Cornwall and the Cornish; he is the author of A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (UEP, 2005, paperback 2007) and The Cornish Overseas: A History of Cornwall's Great Emigration. He is a frequent visitor to Australia, where he has conducted extensive research and addressed numerous conferences.
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