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.
Cuprins
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 Trezise
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 Twentieth Century Paul Willerton
30: Epilogue Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe
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Index
Despre autor
Mark Stoyle is Professor of early modern history at the University of Southampton. He specialises in early modern British history, with particular research interests in the ‘British crisis’ of the 1640s; cultural, ethnic and religious identity in Wales and Cornwall between 1450 and 1700; and popular memory of the English Civil War from 1660 to the present day.213.860 Ebooks din această categorie
