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Making Moonta

The Invention of 'Australia's Little Cornwall'

Autor: Philip Payton

Jazyk:

Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PRESS

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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Winner of the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for non-fiction. An investigation of the popular tradition of...

Informace o knize

Autor

Philip Payton

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2007

Stránek

284

EAN

9780859897969

ISBN

0859897966

Enbook ID

04743862

Vydavatel

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PRESS

Hmotnost

490

Rozměry

157 x 232 x 21

Kompletní popis

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.