Remembering the Modoc War (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
264
Utgivningsdatum
2016-12-30
Förlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Illustrationer
20|20 halftones, 2 maps
Dimensioner
236 x 165 x 17 mm
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386 g
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1
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Paperback
ISBN
9781469633343

Remembering the Modoc War

Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence

av Boyd Cothran
Häftad,  Engelska, 2016-12-30
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On October 3, 1873, the U.S. Army hanged four Modoc headmen at Oregon's Fort Klamath. The condemned had supposedly murdered the only U.S. Army general to die during the Indian wars of the nineteenth century. Their much-anticipated execution marked the end of the Modoc War of 1872-73. But as Boyd Cothran demonstrates, the conflict's close marked the beginning of a new struggle over the memory of the war. Examining representations of the Modoc War in the context of rapidly expanding cultural and commercial marketplaces, Cothran shows how settlers created and sold narratives of the conflict that blamed the Modocs. These stories portrayed Indigenous people as the instigators of violence and white Americans as innocent victims. Cothran examines the production and circulation of these narratives, from sensationalized published histories and staged lectures featuring Modoc survivors of the war to commemorations and promotional efforts to sell newly opened Indian lands to settlers. As Cothran argues, these narratives of American innocence justified not only violence against Indians in the settlement of the West but also the broader process of U.S. territorial and imperial expansion.
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An original and important study of the long-term impact of one of the frontier wars in the American West.--Journal of American History |For Cothran, reconsidering the Modoc War means more than setting the record straight. His historical work actively deconstructs contemporary narratives of American innocence and the ways they use history.--American Quarterly |A nuanced, well-researched, sharply-argued, far-reaching cultural history of Gilded Age settler colonialism in the American West.--Native American and Indigenous Studies |[A] fascinating examination. . . . Succeeds in returning the conflict to a central place in the history of western settlement.--Pacific Northwest Quarterly

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Boyd Cothran is assistant professor of history at York University.

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