The Cornish in Latin America - Book Review
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“The Cornish in Latin America: ‘Cousin Jack’ and the New World”
by Dr Sharron P. Schwartz
Dr Schwartz has produced an exhaustively researched but thoroughly readable work which recounts in detail how the Latin American mining fields of Peru, Mexico, Chile, Cuba, Brazil and elsewhere became established, or were reshaped through the application of Cornish skills and technology, allied with British capital. Not content with documenting the impacts of the Cornish in communities throughout Latin America, Dr Schwartz also addresses the effects that this migration had on the many towns and villages across Cornwall from whence the migrants came.
Sharron Schwartz’s prime concern is with her fellow-Cornish overseas in Latin America; their adventures and achievements and descendants.
This publication demonstrates the significant Cornish contribution to the British development of nineteenth century Latin American mining resources, thus ensuring that the labour migrants from this small and remarkable region of Britain are finally recognised for their involvement in this process.
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