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The first study of its kind, this book explains the rich, complex maritime inheritance of Cornwall and will be a significant addition to the literature of international maritime history. Individually commissioned contributions from distinguished historians have been carefully selected to create an overall structure that allows the reader to appreciate the importance of different periods, from the middle ages to the twentieth century. Featuring comprehensive and authoritative discussion of the many social, cultural, economic, political, military, and environmental aspects of Cornwall's maritime history, this book will be indispensable to those studying Cornwall past and present.
List of contents
List of Editors and Contributors List of Illustrations List of Tables and Figures Foreword Introduction and Acknowledgements Part I: 'Window to a Wider World': Early and Medieval Cornwall 1: Introduction Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe 2: The Origins of Maritime Cornwall: Pre-Medieval Settlements and Seaways Caradoc Peters 3: Coastal Communities in Medieval Cornwall Maryanne Kowaleski 4: Overseas Trade and Shipping in Cornwall in the Later Middle Ages Wendy R. Childs Part II: 'The Age of Turbulence': Maritime Disorder in Tudor and Stuart Cornwall 5: Introduction Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe 6: Plunder and Prize: Cornish Piracy and Privateering during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries John C. Appleby 7: 'His Majesties Sea-Service in the Western Parts': Maritime Affairs in Cornwall during the English Civil War Mark Stoyle 8: Corruption and Inefficiency in the Cornish Customs Service in the Later Seventeenth Century W.B. Stephens Part III: 'A Time for War and Trade': Cornwall in the Eighteenth Century 9: Introduction Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe 10: Cornish Tin Ships, 1703-1710 John Symons 11: Cornwall and the Royal Navy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries N.A.M. Rodger 12: Cornish Ports in the Eighteenth Century Helen Doe 13: Smuggling and Wrecking John Rule 14: The Cornish Arundells and the Right of Wreck: A Case Study in Landlord-Tenant Relations in the Long Eighteenth Century Cathryn Pearce 15: Navigation Adrian James Webb Pat IV: 'Global Reach and Industrial Prowess': Cornwall in the Nineteenth Century 16: Introduction Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe 17: The Cornish Sea Fisheries in the Nineteenth Century Tony Pawlyn 18: Cornwall: An Inside-out Industrial Region Bernard Deacon 19: The Coastal Trade in Cornish China Clay John Armstrong 20: Cornish Maritime Steam Roy Fenton 21: Yachting in Cornwall before the First World War Janet Cusack 22: The Smuggler and the Wrecker: Literary Representations of Cornish Maritime Life Simon Tresize 23: Cornish Ports, Shipping and Investment in the Nineteenth Century Helen Doe Part V: 'Inventing "The Cornish Riviera"': From Twentieth to Twenty-first Century Cornwall 24: Introduction Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe 25: Cornwall and the Decline of Commercial Sail Alston Kennerley 26: Maritime Cornwall in the Era of Two World Wars G.H. and R. Bennett 27: Cornwall's Trading Ports: twentieth-Century Decline into Diversity Terry Chapman 28: Twentieth-Century Maritime Tourism and Recreation Philip Payton 29: Cornish Fisheries in the Twentieh Century Paul Willerton 30: Epilogue Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe Select Bibliography Index
About the author
Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies in the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University's Cornwall campus. He has published extensively on the Cornish and the Cornish Diaspora. Dr Helen Doe is an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Maritime Studies in the University of Exeter and has published articles and books on both Cornish and wider English maritime history. Dr Alston Kennerley is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Plymouth where he taught Navigation and Maritime History, and also an Honorary Fellow of the University of Exeter.
Summary
The first study of its kind. The book explores the rich, complex maritime inheritance of Cornwall on a national and international scale, considering the importance of the different historical periods from the medieval to the twentieth century.
