{"product_id":"storied-land-community-and-memory-in-monterey-paperback","title":"Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Walton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStoried Land\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn 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 \u003ci\u003eRemembering Ahanagran: A History of Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With deep research, shrewd analysis, and vivid writing, John Walton reveals how we live in a web of competing stories that connect future and present to a contested past. In recovering the particular riches of Monterey's literally storied past, Walton finds universal experiences of labor, resistance, loss, and silencing. His own masterful storytelling lets us develop a fuller, more humane tie to the people of our past.\"--Alan Taylor, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eWilliam Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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. Excavating a region and a city important to Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and American California, \u003ci\u003eA Storied Land\u003c\/i\u003e makes a welcomed contribution to California studies and the larger history and sociology of place.\"--Kevin Starr, author of \u003ci\u003eInventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"--Howard Becker, author of \u003ci\u003eArt Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Walton\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eReluctant Rebels\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), \u003ci\u003eFree Markets and Food Riots\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), and the award- winning \u003ci\u003eWestern Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1992).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 342\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.93 x 8.94 x 6.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45390846394470,"sku":"9780520227231","price":66.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/aGdhZVlXVm9pTDB4ejdZY21PRVoxZz09.webp?v=1775116205","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/storied-land-community-and-memory-in-monterey-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}