Description
Introduction -- 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.