Voices From This Long Brown Land - Oral Recollections of Owens Valley Lives and Manzanar Pasts

Informationen zum Autor Jane Wehrey is a Research Associate with the Oral History Program, California State University-Fullerton. Klappentext In this engaging oral history, residents of California's scenic, sparsely-populated Owens Valley reflect on their varied experiences with the region's turbulent past. Contested themes of Native American removal, water transfers, and wartime internment are interwoven with remembrances of the valley's multicultural communities, its cattle ranching and agriculture, and its Western filmmaking, railroad, and mining enterprises. Together, author and narrators create an accessible and richly textured work of history, memory, and place. Zusammenfassung In this engaging oral history, residents of California's scenic, sparsely-populated Owens Valley reflect on their varied experiences with the region's turbulent past. Contested themes of Native American removal, water transfers, and wartime internment are interwoven with remembrances of the valley's multicultural communities, its cattle ranching and agriculture, and its Western filmmaking, railroad, and mining enterprises. Together, author and narrators create an accessible and richly textured work of history, memory, and place.

Product details

• Authors: Na Na, Jane Wehrey
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.02.2006
• EAN: 9780312295417
• ISBN: 978-0-312-29541-7
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History; Palgrave Studies in Oral Histo; Palgrave Studies in Oral History; Palgrave Studies in Oral Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, History, Social Inequality, Social & ethical issues, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Structure, History, Modern, Modern History, United States—History, US History, Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten