The Maritime History Of Cornwall

Author : Professor Philip Payton,Dr Alston Kennerley,Helen Doe
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859899826

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The Maritime History of Cornwall by Professor Philip Payton,Dr Alston Kennerley,Helen Doe Pdf

Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region. Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea. Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent maritime environment, while its strategic position at the western approaches—jutting out into the Atlantic—has given this history a global impact. It is perhaps surprising then, that, despite the central place of the sea in Cornwall’s history, there has not yet been a full maritime history of Cornwall. The Maritime History of Cornwall sets out to fill this gap, exploring the rich and complex maritime inheritance of this unique peninsula. In a beautifully illustrated volume, individually commissioned contributions from distinguished historians elaborate on the importance of different periods, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The Maritime History of Cornwall is a significant addition to the literature of international maritime history and is indispensable to those with an interest in Cornwall past and present. Winner of the Holyer an Gof Non-Fiction Award 2015.

Author : Philip Payton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 085989021X

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Cornwall by Philip Payton Pdf

Essential reading for anyone with an interest in Cornwall, this book by Philip Payton is wide-ranging in its subject matter, covering the county's history from the earliest records to a view of the future.

Author : Michael Oppenheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015030641966

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The Maritime History of Devon by Michael Oppenheim Pdf

Author : David John Starkey,David Starkey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Devon (England)
ISBN : UVA:X001772006

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Sources for a New Maritime History of Devon by David John Starkey,David Starkey Pdf

Author : Michael Duffy
Publisher : Brassey's
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015032901178

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The New Maritime History of Devon: From early times to the late eighteenth century by Michael Duffy Pdf

Author : David Gordon Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Falmouth (England)
ISBN : 0857042238

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Maritime History of Falmouth by David Gordon Wilson Pdf

Positioned towards the western end of the English Channel, the port of Falmouth has played an important part in the nation's maritime affairs for centuries. This book examines the development of the town, its harbour and its shipping, as well as looking at the people who have spent their working lives around the Fal estuary and the magnificent Cornish coast.

Author : Philip Payton
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781905816132

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The Cornish Overseas by Philip Payton Pdf

In this fully revised and up-dated edition of The Cornish Overseas, Philip Payton draws upon almost two decades of additional research undertaken by historians the world over since the first paperback version of this book was published in 2005. Now published by University of Exeter Press, this edition of Philip Payton’s classic history of Cornwall’s ‘great emigration’ takes account of numerous new sources to present a comprehensive, definitive picture of the Cornish diaspora. The Cornish Overseas begins by identifying some of the classic themes of Cornish emigration history, including Cornwall’s ‘emigration culture’ and ‘emigration trade’, and goes on to sketch early Cornish settlement in North America and Australia. The book then examines in detail the upsurge in Cornish emigration after 1815, showing how Cornwall became swiftly one of the great emigration regions of Europe. Discoveries of silver, copper and gold drew Cornish miners to Latin America, while Cornish agriculturalists were attracted to the United States and Canada. The discoveries of copper in South Australia and in Michigan during the 1840s offered new destinations for the emigrant Cornish, as did the Californian gold rush in 1849 and the Victorian gold rush in Australia in 1851. The crash of copper-mining in Cornwall in 1866 sped further waves of emigrants to countries as disparate as New Zealand and South Africa. In each of these places the Cornish remained distinctive as ‘Cousin Jacks’ and ‘Cousin Jennys’, establishing their own communities and making important contributions to the social, political and economic development of the new worlds. By 1914, however, Cornwall was no longer the international centre of mining expertise, the mantle having passed to America, Australia and South Africa, and Cornish emigration had dwindled as a result. Nonetheless, the Cornish at home and abroad remained aware of their global transnational identity, an identity that has been revitalised in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47788/KILX2994

Author : David M. Williams,Andrew P. White
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786949349

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A Select Bibliography of British and Irish University Theses about Maritime History, 1792-1990 by David M. Williams,Andrew P. White Pdf

This book provides a bibliography of a wide scope of British and Irish post-graduate theses of maritime economic and social history. Its intent is to make these informative, under-utilised texts more accessible for scholars, in response to the deep expansion of subject as a historical discipline. It aims to keep these texts, often unpublished, from lapsing into obscurity. The author takes a broad approach to the subject area, including strands more particular to science than the humanities, and history as recent as the year of publication, intending the resource to be as comprehensive as possible, and of maximum use to present and future scholars. The material is primarily gathered and cross-referenced from Roger R. Bilboul’s Restrospective Index to Theses of Great Britain and Ireland 1716-1950, the ASLIB Index, and the Institute of Historical Research of the University of London. Each entry comprises Surname, Thesis Title (truncated for length where necessary), Degree Awarded, Awarding Institution, and Date. The database comprises 2500 entries, subdivided into twenty-five sections concerning:- the shipping business and all commercial/mercantile aspects of operation; exploration, cartography, and navigation; shipping and shipbuilding technologies; docks and harbours; maritime labour; maritime medical issues; naval history, piracy, privateering; international relations; maritime law; pollution and the maritime environment; fishing; sea-port communities; culture, literature, and art; maritime economics; marine architecture; coastal planning; tourism; and off-shore oil. The sections are further subdivided by location, and a geographical index is included for ease of reference. The author assures that the majority of theses are readily accessible.

Author : Cathryn J. Pearce
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843835554

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Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 by Cathryn J. Pearce Pdf

Discusses the complex laws and practices relating to wreck law, that is the right to salvage goods washed up on the shore, examines how Cornish people made use of this "harvest of the sea" and explores how myths about Cornish wrecking have developed.

Author : Alan Kittridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Coastwise shipping
ISBN : 0906294509

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Cornwall's Maritime Heritage by Alan Kittridge Pdf

Author : David Cressy,David (George III Professor of British History and Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus Cressy, George III Professor of British History and Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus Ohio State University)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Salvage
ISBN : 9780192863393

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Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea by David Cressy,David (George III Professor of British History and Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus Cressy, George III Professor of British History and Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus Ohio State University) Pdf

Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern period. It explores the politics of the coastline, the economy of scavenging, and the law of 'wreck of the sea' from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the end of the reign of George II. England's coastlines were heavily trafficked by naval and commercial shipping, but an unfortunate percentage was cast away or lost. Shipwrecks were disasters for merchants and mariners, but opportunities for shore dwellers. As the proverb said, it was an ill wind that blew nobody any good. Lords of manors, local officials, officers of the Admiralty, and coastal commoners competed for maritime cargoes and the windfall of wreckage, which they regarded as providential godsends or entitlements by right. A varied haul of commodities, wines, furnishings, and bullion came ashore, much of it claimed by the crown. The people engaged in salvaging these wrecks came to be called 'wreckers', and gained a reputation as violent and barbarous plunderers. Close attention to statements of witnesses and reports of survivors shows this image to be largely undeserved. Dramatic evidence from previously unexplored manuscript sources reveals coastal communities in action, collaborating as well as competing, as they harvested the bounty of the sea.

Author : Katie Donington,Ryan Hanley,Jessica Moody
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781382776

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Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery by Katie Donington,Ryan Hanley,Jessica Moody Pdf

Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard alehouses to country estates. Today, its financial, architectural and societal legacies remain, scattered across the country in museums and memorials, philanthropic institutions and civic buildings, empty spaces and unmarked graves. Just as they did in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British people continue to make sense of this 'national sin' by looking close to home, drawing on local histories and myths to negotiate their relationship to the distant horrors of the 'Middle Passage', and the Caribbean plantation. For the first time, this collection brings together localised case studies of Britain's history and memory of its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, and slavery. These essays, ranging in focus from eighteenth-century Liverpool to twenty-first-century rural Cambridgeshire, from racist ideologues to Methodist preachers, examine how transatlantic slavery impacted on, and continues to impact, people and places across Britain.

Author : Todd Gray
Publisher : Devon & Cornwall Record Society
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : MSU:31293006373140

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Early-Stuart Mariners and Shipping by Todd Gray Pdf

This volume contains all the surviving early-Stuart surveys of Mariners and Shipping for Devon and Cornwall, including a hitherto unknown one of south Devon discovered in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge. From parish to parish, all along the coasts of the two counties and in some cases far inland, the seafaring population is delineated. There are about 6000 names in all, a source for social and maritime historians and especially valuable for family historians in the two counties. Nearly unique in its time as an 'occupation census', the information provides rare glimpses into local life. Included in the Introduction is an analysis of contemporary ships' names.

Author : Alan G. Jamieson
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041847669

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A People of the Sea by Alan G. Jamieson Pdf

Author : Michael McCaughan,John Appleby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:35007000414577

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The Irish Sea by Michael McCaughan,John Appleby Pdf

"These essays range in time from the Viking age to the present day and include studies on trade, shipping, shipbuilding, fishing and smuggling, besides consideration of the geographical context and sources for regional maritime history."--Dust jacket.