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.
List of illustrations, ix; Preface, xi; 1. 'The largest Cornish communities beyond Land's End': Making Moonta's Cornish myth, 1; 2. 'Wherever a hole is sunk in the ground': Moonta and Cornwall's great emigration, 32; 3. The cult of Captain Hancock: The man and his mines, 63; 4. 'Cornwall was never conquered yet': Moonta's working-class heroes, 97; 5. 'Moonta toil and Moonta gain': Women, Methodists and the triumph over adversity, 130; 6. 'Moonta's little, but she's great': The enduring myth, 166; 7. 'The world's largest Cornish festival': The myth revived, 192; Epilogue, 222; Notes, 229; Index, 255.
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Making Moonta von Philip Payton - mit der ISBN: 9780859899291
HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General; HISTORY / Social History; 19th century; 20th century; Australia; Australia's Little Cornwall; Australian history; Cornish identity; Cornish immigrant communities; Cornish studies; Little Cornwall; Moonta; Oswald Pryor; Transnational identity; Yorke Peninsula; copper mining; immigration; industrial history; industrialisation; industry; mining; mining history; myth; twentieth century, Online-Buchhandlung
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