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Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey

Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey

Paperback

General SociologyRegional: West

ISBN10: 0520227239
ISBN13: 9780520227231
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Dec 1 2003
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.18 Depth: 8.94
Language: English




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.

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