Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence - Brossura

Cothran, Boyd

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1469633345 ISBN 13: 9781469633343

Casa editrice: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2017

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

Boyd Cothran is associate professor of history at York University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of North Carolina Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1469633345
• ISBN 13: 9781469633343
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 247
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile