Storied Land - Community and Memory in Monterey

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-520-22723-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 361 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 588 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walton, John

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regionalgeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Spain's Far Frontier

3. Revolutionary California

4. American Property

5. Industry and Community

6. The Historical Present

7. Conclusion: Action, Narrative, History

Notes
Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).