Remembering the Modoc War
Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence
Boyd Cothran
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/2014
Pages: 264
Subject: History
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469618616
DESCRIPTION
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.