The maritime history of Cornwall. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Philip Payton, Alston Kennerley, Helen Doe.
• Authors: Payton, Philip
• Editors: Payton, Philip, 1953-; Kennerley, Alston; Doe, Helen
• Contents: List of Editors and Contributors; Lists of Illustrations; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Introduction and Acknowledgements; Part I: 'Window to a Wider World': Early and Medieval Cornwall; 1 Introduction; 2 The Origins of Maritime Cornwall: Pre-Medieval Settlements and Seaways; 3 Coastal Communities in Medieval Cornwall; 4 Overseas Trade and Shipping in Cornwall in the Later Middle Ages; Part II: 'The Age of Turbulence': Maritime Disorder in Tudor and Stuart Cornwall; 5 Introduction; 6 Plunder and Prize: Cornish Piracy and Privateering during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. 7 'His Majesties Sea-Service in the Western Parts': Maritime Affairs in Cornwall during the English Civil War8 Corruption and Inefficiency in the Cornish Customs Service in the Later Seventeenth Century; Part III: 'A Time for War and Trade': Cornwall in the Eighteenth Century; 9 Introduction; 10 Cornish Tin Ships, 1703-1710; 11 Cornwall and the Royal Navy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 12 Cornish Ports in the Eighteenth Century; 13 Smuggling and Wrecking; 14 The Cornish Arundells and the Right of Wreck: A Case Study in Landlord-Tenant Relations in the Long Eighteenth Century. 15 NavigationPart IV: 'Global Reach and Industrial Prowess': Cornwall in the Nineteenth Century; 16 Introduction; 17 The Cornish Sea Fisheries in the Nineteenth Century; 18 Cornwall: An Inside-out Industrial Region; 19 The Coastal Trade in Cornish China Clay; 20 Cornish Maritime Steam; 21 Yachting in Cornwall before the First World War; 22 The Smuggler and the Wrecker: Literary Representations of Cornish Maritime Life; 23 Cornish Ports, Shipping and Investment in the Nineteenth Century; Part V: 'Inventing "The Cornish Riviera"': From Twentieth to Twenty-first Century Cornwall; 24 Introduction. 25 Cornwall and the Decline of Commercial Sail26 Maritime Cornwall in the Era of Two World Wars; 27 Cornwall's Trading Ports: Twentieth-Century Decline into Diversity; 28 Twentieth-Century Maritime Tourism and Recreation; 29 Cornish Fisheries in the Twentieth Century; Epilogue; Select Bibliography.
• Publisher Details: Exeter : University of Exeter Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 387.5094237; Navigation -- England -- Cornwall (County) -- History; Seafaring life -- England -- Cornwall (County) -- History; Shipping -- England -- Cornwall (County) -- History; Navigation -- Angleterre -- Cornwall -- Histoire; Vie en mer -- Angleterre -- Cornwall -- Histoire; Navigation; Seafaring life; Shipping; Cornwall (England : County) -- History, Naval; Cornwall (Angleterre) -- Histoire navale; England -- Cornwall (County); History; Naval history
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780859899826; 0859899829; 9780859899604; 0859899608
• Related ISBNs: 9780859898508
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: CIP data; item not viewed.
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