{"product_id":"remembering-the-modoc-war-redemptive-violence-and-the-making-of-american-innocence-9781469633343","title":"Remembering the Modoc War  Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn October 3, 1873, the US Army hanged four Modoc headmen at Oregon's Fort Klamath. The condemned had supposedly murdered the only US Army general to die during the Indian wars of the nineteenth century. Their 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn original and important study of the long-term impact of one of the frontier wars in the American West.--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e|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.--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e|A nuanced, well-researched, sharply-argued, far-reaching cultural history of Gilded Age settler colonialism in the American West.--\u003ci\u003eNative American and Indigenous Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e|[A] fascinating examination. . . . Succeeds in returning the conflict to a central place in the history of western settlement.--\u003ci\u003ePacific Northwest Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195282977111,"sku":"9781469633343","price":26.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781469633343.jpg?v=1763647039","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/remembering-the-modoc-war-redemptive-violence-and-the-making-of-american-innocence-9781469633343","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}