Description
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.
Author: John Walton
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 12/01/2003
Pages: 342
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.18w x 0.93d
ISBN13: 9780520227231
ISBN10: 0520227239
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | General
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
About the Author
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).