Making Moonta

Philip Payton

Description

Winner of the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for non-fiction. 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. Today Moonta is a small town on South Australia’s northern Yorke Peninsula; along with the neighbouring townships of of Wallaroo and Kadina, it is an agricultural and heritage tourism centre. In the second half of the nineteenth century, however, Moonta was the focus of a major copper mining industry.

This book is about Moonta and its special place in the Cornish transnational identity. Today Moonta is a small town on South Australia’s northern Yorke Peninsula; along with the neighbouring townships of of Wallaroo and Kadina, it is an agricultural and heritage tourism centre. In the second half of the nineteenth century, however, Moonta was the focus of a major copper mining industry.

From the beginning, Moonta cast itself as unique among Cornish immigrant communities, becoming ‘the hub of the universe’ according to its inhabitants, forging the myth of ‘Australia’s Little Cornwall’: a myth perpetuated by Oswald Pryor and others that survived the collapse of the copper mines in 1923—and remains vibrant and intact today.

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.

Sujets

• Social History
• 20th Century
• Modern
• HISTORY
• Histoire
• Australia Meridional
• 19th century
• Little Cornwall
• Moonta, South Australia
• Yorke Peninsula
• Modern history
• History of the British Isles
• General officer
• History of Australia
• Moonta
• General
• Australia
• Obermodern-Zutzendorf
• South Australia

Informations

• Publié par: University of Exeter Press
• Date de parution: 02 mars 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780859899291
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

Extrait

Making MOONTA

The Invention ofAustralia’s Little Cornwall

PHILIP PAYTON

Mà Môôà

The ïnventîon o Australîa’s Lîttle Cornwall

Tŝ  éààé àççôû ô é  ô ‘é Côà’ àçéŝ é ŝô ô Môôà à ŝ ŝéçà àçé  é Côŝ àŝàôà é. Tôà Môôà ŝ à ŝà ô ô Sôû Aûŝàà’ŝ ôé Yôé Péŝûà; àô  é éôû ôŝŝ ô Wààôô à Kàà,  ŝ à àçûûà à éàé ôûŝ çéé. ï é ŝéçô à ô é ééé çéû, ôéé, Môôà àŝ é ôçûŝ ô à àjô çôé  ûŝ. P Pàô éé ôéŝ ŝôé àŝçà é ô ô é  ééé- à éà-éé-çéû Aûŝàà, à éàéŝ é  ô ‘Aûŝàà’ŝ é Côà’: à  ééûàé  Oŝà Pô à ôéŝ à ŝûé é çôàŝé ô é çôé éŝ  1923—à éàŝ à à àç ôà.

Phîîp Paytoné é ô Côà à é Côŝ; é ŝ é àŝ àûô ôA.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxîcal Patrîot(UEP, 2005, àéàç 2007) àThe Cornîsh Overseas: A Hîstory o Cornwall’s Great Emîgratîonŝ. Hé Pôéŝŝô ô Côŝ & Aûŝàà Sûéŝ à é Uéŝ ô Eéé à Déçô ô é ïŝûé ô Côŝ Sûéŝ à é Uéŝ’ŝ Côà Càûŝ. Hé àŝ àŝô çôûçé ééŝé éŝéàç à àéŝŝé ûéôûŝ çôééçéŝ  Aûŝàà.

Mà Môôà The ïnventîon o Australîa’s Lîttle Cornwall

PHïïP PAY TON

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 ŝ ô ûŝàôŝ  Péàçé  1. ‘Té àéŝ Côŝ çôûéŝ éô à’ŝ E’: Mà Môôà’ŝ Côŝ   2. ‘Wééé à ôé ŝ ŝû  é ôû’: Môôà à Côà’ŝ éà éàô  3. Té çû ô Càà Hàçôç: Té à à ŝ éŝ  4. ‘Côà àŝ éé çôqûéé é’: Môôà’ŝ ô-çàŝŝ éôéŝ  5. ‘Môôà ô à Môôà à’: Wôé, Méôŝŝ à é û ôé àéŝ  6. ‘Môôà’ŝ é, û ŝé’ŝ éà’: Té éû   7. ‘Té ô’ŝ àéŝ Côŝ éŝà’: Té  éé  Eôûé  Nôéŝ  ïé

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