Brendan Lindsay
Biographic Data
| ID | 4368006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brendan Lindsay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brendan |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindsay |
| SIGNATURE | LINDSAY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Sacramento |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Modoc War
Robert Aquinas McNally’s The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age is an absorbing narrative history of one of the few Indian-White conflicts in nineteenth-century California that merits the label of an “Indian war.” Typically when one encounters the term “Indian war” in California history, it is usually as a euphemism for a one-sided, unprovoked massacre of Native people perpetrated by White men organized as an irreg…
Humor and Dissonance in California's Native American Genocide
The originator of cognitive dissonance theory, Leon Festinger, and those who have followed him in revising, expanding, and clarifying his theories over the past five decades provide historians investigating cases of genocide a useful lens for viewing some of the social and psychological forces acting within and upon its perpetrators. This essay takes the contemporary findings of behavioral scientists on dissonance theory and applies their theoret…
Murder State
Murder State
Humor and Dissonance in California's Native American Genocide
The originator of cognitive dissonance theory, Leon Festinger, and those who have followed him in revising, expanding, and clarifying his theories over the past five decades provide historians investigating cases of genocide a useful lens for viewing some of the social and psychological forces acting within and upon its perpetrators. This essay takes the contemporary findings of behavioral scientists on dissonance theory and applies their theoret…
The Modoc War
Robert Aquinas McNally’s The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age is an absorbing narrative history of one of the few Indian-White conflicts in nineteenth-century California that merits the label of an “Indian war.” Typically when one encounters the term “Indian war” in California history, it is usually as a euphemism for a one-sided, unprovoked massacre of Native people perpetrated by White men organized as an irreg…
Political science (3 works) · Genocide (2 works) · Law (2 works) · 19th century (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (1 work) · California (1 work) · Cognitive dissonance (1 work) · Commit (1 work) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (1 work)