Table of Contents

A Culture of Mobility
The Rage for Emigration
Bonanzas and Bugbears - Latin America
From Famine to Frontier - The Hungry Forties and the First American Mining Boom
South Australia's Copper Kingdom
Gold! The Californian Rush
Gold! The Victorian Rush
Crashed Copper, Tumbled Tin & 'The Largest Cornish Communities Beyond Land's End'
New Frontiers - Australia
New Frontiers - North America
'But a Suburb of Cornwall' - South Africa
'All Hail! Old Cornwall! May Thy Glory Last' - The End of an Era
An Enduring Identity? The Cornish in a Globalised World

About the Author

Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.

Reviews

A magisterial survey of the creation during the nineteenth century of the Cornish diaspora, the experiences of the Cornish who emigrated, and the emergence in many different parts of the world of communities based upon mining which cherished their distinctive Cornish identity.
*Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia*

Payton is the ultimate collector of Cornish data… Payton’s intimate knowledge of mining lore and technology make him an authoritative guide. He shows the comprehensive transmission of Cornish culture, folkways, language and mining methods to the South Australian tabula rasa in the 1840s.
Payton’s fine work…provides a professional, heavily documented narrative of the long exodus from Cornwall and he invests it with spirit and humour… The Cornish Overseas is a splendidly panoramic survey of the global Cornish, and an important addition to emigration and mining history.
*Professor Eric Richards, Emeritus Professor of History, Flinders University of South Australia*

The most comprehensive telling of Cornwall's story as one of the great migration regions of Europe… The new materials in the volume, especially on Australia, and updated interpretations, especially pertaining to the mindsets of migrants, proved central to my work.
*The Nevada County Historical Society*

I made very frequent use of The Cornish Overseas while writing my last monograph. It is a fine piece of scholarship, deeply researched, carefully arranged and beautifully presented… There has been a rapid growth of interest in histories of migration, transnational histories, the history of skilled labour, expatriate British communities, and global history. Payton’s work lies at the intersection of all these and deserves a wide readership.
*Professor Andrew Thompson, Chair of History, University of Exeter*

A huge undertaking, distilling wide-ranging research on a complex subject into an engaging and very readable volume packed with detail.
*The Local Historian*

The most important book of its kind in half a century... A spectacular and comprehensive scope.[...] It is a salute to Cornwall and the Cornish. It must take a premier place in breadth of research, in quality of presentation, and in the sheer magnetism and warmth of its readability.
*West Briton, review of previous edition*

It is authoritative, based on decades of research and familiarity with its subject matter. An excellent reference work, meticulously referenced and indexed. I can find no fault with it.
*Journal of Australasian Mining History*