West Britons
Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British State
Distributed for University of Exeter Press
“A major contribution both to the history of Cornwall and the south-west and more generally to our understanding of the early modern period and in particular what must now be regarded as the British Civil War. And the book is as enjoyable to read as it is scholarly.” –Devon Historian, Oct 2002
“A coherent body of essays on the peculiar nature of the Cornish experience during the turbulent years on both sides of the Tamar during the two early modern centuries.” –Cromwelliana, 2000
“Stimulating and provocative.” –English Historical Review, Vol. 117, No. 473, Sept 2002
1. ‘The Dissidence of Despair’: Rebellion and Identity in Early Modern Cornwall
2. ‘Knowest Thou My Brood?’: Locating the Cornish in Tudor and Stuart England
3. ‘England No England But Babel’: English Nationalism and the English Civil War
4. ‘Pagans or Paragons?’: Images of the Cornish during the English Civil War
5. ‘The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel’: Sir Richard Grenville and Cornish Particularism
6. ‘The Gear Rout’: The Cornish Rising of 1648 and the Second Civil War
7. William Scawen: A Seventeenth-Century Cornish Patriot
8. ‘A Monument of Honour’: The Cornish Royalist Tradition after 1660
Appendices:
1. ‘A Gratulacion to Cornish Men’, October 1642
2. The Parliamentarian summons to Cornwall, September 1645
3. The King’s Cornish Regiments, 1642–1646
4. Extracts from William Scawen’s Antiquities Cornu-Britannic
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