The Cornish overseas : a history of Cornwall's 'great emigration'

Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Maps
Preface
Chapter 1 The Great Emigration: Reflections and Comparisons
Chapter 2 A Culture of Mobility
Chapter 3 The Rage for Emigration
Chapter 4 Bonanzas and Bugbears: Latin America
Chapter 5 From Famine to Frontier: The Hungry Forties and the First American Mining Boom
Chapter 6 South Australia’s Copper Kingdom
Chapter 7 Gold! The Californian Rush
Chapter 8 Gold! The Victorian Rush
Chapter 9 Crashed Copper, Tumbled Tin and ‘the largest Cornish communities beyond Land’s End’
Chapter 10 New Frontiers: Australasia
Chapter 11 New Frontiers: North America
Chapter 12 ‘But a suburb of Cornwall’: South Africa
Chapter 13 ‘All hail! Old Cornwall! May thy glory last’: The End of an Era?
Chapter 14 An Enduring Identity? The Cornish in a Globalised World
Notes and References
Select Bibliography
Index
Central and South America
Southern Canada and the north-eastern states of the USA
Principal mining locations in South Australia
Mining locations and principal cities in California
Principal mining locations in Victoria and New South Wales
Principal mining locations and cities in South Africa