Walton, John 1937-

Capital and labour in the urbanized world by John Walton( Book )

21 editions published between 1984 and 1985 in English and Undetermined and held by 376 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The legendary detective : the private eye in fact and fiction by John Walton( Book )

9 editions published between 2015 and 2021 in English and held by 352 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

""I'm in a business where people come to me with troubles. Big troubles, little troubles, but always troubles they dont want to take to the cops." That's Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, succinctly setting out our image of the private eye. A no-nonsense loner, working on the margins of society, working in the darkness to shine a little light. The reality is a little different - but no less fascinating. In The Legendary Detective, John Walton offers a sweeping history of the American private detective in reality and myth, from the earliest agencies to the hard-boiled heights of the 1930s and '40s. Drawing on previously untapped archival accounts of actual detective work, Walton traces both the growth of major private detective agencies like Pinkerton, which became powerful bulwarks against social and labor unrest, and the motley, unglamorous work of small-time operatives. He then goes on to show us how writers like Dashiell Hammett and editors of sensational pulp magazines like Black Mask embellished on actual experiences and fashioned an image of the PI as a compelling, even admirable, necessary evil, doing society's dirty work while adhering to a self-imposed moral code. Scandals, public investigations, and regulations brought the boom years of private agencies to an end in the late 1930s, Walton explains, in the process fully cementing the shift from reality to fantasy."--Publisher's website

Storied land : community and memory in Monterey by John Walton( Book )

6 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 277 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"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."--Jacket

Small worlds : method, meaning, and narrative in microhistory( Book )

6 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 187 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The essential feature of this perspective is a search for significance in the microcosm, the large lessons discovered in small worlds. Urging the recognition of potential commonalities among archaeology, history, sociology, and anthropology, the authors propose that historical interpretation should move freely across disciplines, historical study should be held up to the present, and individual lives should be understood as the intersection of biography and history. The authors develop these themes in a kaleidoscope of places and periods - West Africa, the Yucatan peninsula, Italy, Argentina, California, Brazil, Virginia, and Boston, among others. They illuminate discrete places, people, and processes through which both the intimacy of lived experience and the more distant forces that shaped their days can be viewed simultaneously."--BOOK JACKET

Urban poverty in Latin America by John Walton( Book )

4 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 58 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ciudades y sistemas urbanos : economía informal y desorden espacial by John Walton( Book )

6 editions published in 1984 in Spanish and held by 45 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tourism and history by John Walton( )

3 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 45 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contemporary Tourism Reviews will provide you with critical, state-of-the-art surveys of all of the major areas of tourism study to people who are coming to a topic for the first time. The CTR series provides accessible and structured overviews to all areas of research in the broadly defined subject of tourism with links to original sources of information, sites, books and journals as well as a complete glossary of terms, allowing the reader to research as deeply as they wish. Available instantly as downloads, each review provides the equivalent of 30-40 printed pages in an interactive PDF for

L'imagination sociologique de Hans Haacke by Howard Saul Becker( Book )

3 editions published in 2010 in French and held by 33 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hans Haacke : framing and being framed : 7 works 1970-75 by Hans Haacke( Book )

5 editions published in 1975 in English and Undetermined and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The political organization of Chicago's Latino communities by John Walton( Book )

2 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 23 WorldCat member libraries worldwide