Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey - Paperback
by John Walton
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520227231ISBN-10:520227239UPC:9780520227231Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.94 x 6.18 x 0.93 inchesWeight:1.29Product ID:SCJFGN9B32
Storied Land is not only an important record of events--it is also a powerful and innovative investigation of how historical narratives are produced. Walton looks at how Franciscan missionaries and military governors created competing historical narratives of "civilizing" the Native American population. He explores changing historical conditions that generate successive narratives of Yankee progress, Spanish romance, and working-class Cannery Row. Today the nostalgic story of early California competes with political activists' conceptions of environmental protection and ethnic diversity. Walton uses these historical examples to examine the larger issues of collective memory, arguing that history is a product of the interplay of events and narratives.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520227231ISBN-10:520227239UPC:9780520227231Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.94 x 6.18 x 0.93 inchesWeight:1.29Product ID:SCJFGN9B32
John Walton is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. He is also the author of Reluctant Rebels (1984), Free Markets and Food Riots (1994), and the award- winning Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California (California, 1992).
Publisher: University of California Press
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