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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...
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"John Walton never writes predictable books, and Monterey, California, is not a predictable place; the pairing is perfect. Although rooted in Monterey, this book explores how people in general construct historical narratives. Storied Land is as thought-provoking a discussion of public history and what it means to tell stories about the past as anything that I have read."—Richard White, author of Remembering Ahanagran: A History of...
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"Once again, John Walton has turned the facts about California into a compelling narrative and a profound meditation on the nature of history and collective memory."ÑHoward Becker, author of Art Worlds "In the borderlands between archived event and public memory, John Walton has found a pathway to understanding the process whereby a community remembers, forgets, denies, affirms, or otherwise structures or re-structures its understanding of itself....
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- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0520227220
- ISBN 13 9780520227224
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages278
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