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West Britons : Cornish identities and the early modern British state
- Title
- West Britons : Cornish identities and the early modern British state / Mark Stoyle.
- Author
- Stoyle, Mark.
- Publication
- Exeter, UK : University of Exeter Press, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DA670.C8 S78 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xv, 262 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits; 25 cm
- Summary
- "West Britons provides a fresh interpretation of the bloodiest, most devastating years in Cornwall's history and a wholly new perspective on the history of the far South West of Britain. The book explores the unprecedented series of rebellions which took place in Cornwall between 1497 and 1648, traces the connections which existed between those revolts and the contemporary Cornish perception of themselves as a separate people, and argues that Cornish history must be viewed within a British, rather than a purely English context." "West Britons will be required reading for all those who are engaged in the contemporary political and historical debate over "Britishness". It will also appeal to anyone interested in the history of the South West and the English Civil War." "The book also includes transcriptions of a number of previously unpublished documents, useful to teachers and their students, and a list of some 300 Cornish Royalist officers which will be of special interest to genealogists."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. 'The Dissidence of Despair': Rebellion and Identity in Early Modern Cornwall -- 2. 'Knowest Thou My Brood?': Locating the Cornish in Tudor and Stuart England -- 3. 'England No England, but Babel': English 'Nationalism', Welsh and Cornish Particularism and the English Civil War -- 4. 'Pagans or Paragons?': Images of the Cornish during the English Civil War -- 5. 'The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel': Sir Richard Grenville and Cornish Particularism, 1644-1646 -- 6. 'The Gear Rout': The Cornish Rising of 1648 and the Second Civil War -- 7. William Scawen: A Seventeenth-century Cornish Patriot -- 8. 'A Monument of Honour': The Cornish Royalist Tradition after 1660 -- App. 1. 'A Gratulacion to Cornish Men': A letter sent by a group of Cornish Royalist gentlemen to the parish constables, 1642 -- App. 2. The Parliamentarian Summons to Cornwall: A letter to the Sheriff of Cornwall from Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, 1645 -- App. 3. Extract from William Scawen's Antiquities Cornu-Brittanic, c.1688 -- App. 4. Officers of the King's Cornish Infantry Regiments, 1642-1646.
- ISBN
- 0859896870
- 9780859896870
- 0859896889
- 9780859896887
- LCCN
- 2005434330
- OCLC
- ocm48154341
- 48154341
- SCSB-14145097
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library