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BOOK REVIEW

*Philip Payton, Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia's Little Cornwall,* University of Exeter Press, Exeter, 2007. pp. xiv + 269. 14.99 paper.**
Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish and Australian studies at the University of Exeter. His interest in Cornish emigration had been aroused when he read Oswald Pryor's Australia's Little Cornwall while still a school student in Britain. At the University of Adelaide he completed, in 1978, a thesis on the social, economic and political impact of the Cornish in South Australia and has since written extensively on Cornish history and emigration. This expertise makes his book so authoritative.	1
Payton set out in this book to answer questions that long intrigued him: Why ... was Moonta [a copper-mining community on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula] so self-consciously such a place apart? How had it been able to proclaim its status as 'Australia's Little Cornwall', and over time to defend that title so successfully against all comers? How was it that Moonta, though in many ways an exemplar of the overseas Cornish communities created by Cornwall's 'Great Emigration', also such a visible exception? What was it that lay behind Moonta's Cornish myth?	. . .

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