| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Book Review

Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey By John Walton. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xix + 342 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.)

John Walton's Western Times and Water Wars (Berkeley, 1992) impressed readers by offering considerable insight on Owens Valley, a place historians had already treated at length. Storied Land Walton's latest book, resembles Western Times in several ways. Another longitudinal study of a California community, it employs sociological perspective to good effect and sustains Walton's preference for the local and peripheral against the urban and central. In contrast to Western Times moreover, it focuses on a place that historians have not much studied. Yet Storied Land's attention to community and memory ultimately offers less to regional historians than does the focus on state, culture, and rebellion in Western Times. . . .

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