Boyd Cothran
Biographic Data
| ID | 453460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Boyd Cothran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Boyd |
| FAMILY NAME | Cothran |
| SIGNATURE | COTHRAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9160-953X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between Civilization and Savagery: How Reconstruction Era Federal Indian Policy Led to the Indian Wars
This article considers the event of a single year, 1873, to explain how President Ulysses S. Grant's federal Indian policy led to the Indian wars of the late nineteenth century. Some historians have argued that Grant's so-called Peace Policy failed due to systemic mismanagement and corruption; others have suggested it was due to administrative incompetence or ambivalence, while still others have accused the administration of cynicism in its appro…
A Second Gilded Age? The Promises and Perils of an Analogy: Introduction
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Women Warriors and National Heroes: Global Histories
This volume presents women warriors and hero cults from a number of cultures since the early modern period. The first truly global study of women warriors, individual chapters examine figures such as Joan of Arc in Cairo, revenging daughters in Samurai Japan, a transgender Mexican revolutionary and WWII Chinese spies. Exploring issues of violence, gender fluidity, memory and nation-building, the authors discuss how these real or imagined female f…
Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
Reviewed by: Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes Boyd Cothran Nick Estes, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (London and New York: Verso 2019) The day I began reading Nick Estes' provocative Our History is the Future was first day of protests in Toronto in so…
Declared Defective: Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow
In 1912, Arthur H. Estabrook and Charles Davenport, two leading eugenicists, published The Nam Family (1912), an analysis of the rural enclave of Nam Hollow in upstate New York, which, they claimed, demonstrated the biological inheritability of indolence, feeble-mindedness, licentiousness, alcoholism, and criminality. In Declared Defective Robert Jarvenpa sets out to reevaluate The Nam Family by reconstructing the community's history. The result …
Andrew Denson. Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory
In 2012, little white signs with red lettering began appearing throughout western North Carolina next to monuments and roadside markers dedicated to Cherokee history. In both English and the Cherokee syllabary, they proclaimed, “we are still here.” The message was simple. Despite America’s collective memory of the United States’ forced removal in the 1830s of several thousands of Indigenous people from their southeastern homelands to a new territ…
The Many Lives of Justiniano Roxas: The Centenarian Fantasy in American History and Memory
The Many Lives of Justiniano Roxas:The Centenarian Fantasy in American History and Memory Boyd Cothran (bio) and Martin Rizzo (bio) SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA. December 1873. The sweet smell of burning redwood met the visitors as they entered the small apartment. The last rays of the winter solstice shone through the window, casting gossamer shadows across the bare pine floor. Earlier that morning, the old man had attended mass at the Holy Cross Chur…
After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War by Gregory P. Downs
After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War, by Gregory P. Downs. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2015. ix, 342 pp. $32.95 US (cloth). When did the Civil War end? The answer may seem obvious: the day General Robert E. Lee surrendered what was left of the of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. But as Gregory P. Downs' provocative and path-breaking book After Appomattox shows, the end of battle time, the return to peace, and the res…
Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
Melancholia and the Infinite Debate
Discussions of genocide make me melancholy. What are we really talking about when we talk about genocide in American Indian history? Are we preparing legal briefs for international courts and tribunals? Are we weighing evidentiary standards and admissibility requirements? Are we debating jurisdiction and the applicability of various criminal statutes? Or are we talking about genealogies of violence, the enduring legacy of the past in the present …
Enduring Legacy: U.s.-indigenous Violence and the Making of American Innocence in the Gilded Age
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Exchanging Gifts with the Dead: Lava Beds National Monument and Narratives of the Modoc War
This article considers the 1988 dedication of a memorial to United States–Indian violence in far northeastern California to explore the possibilities of historical justice through commemoration andhistorical revisionism. The author explores the anthropological and sociological concept of the gift to expose the limitations of a multicultural marketplace of remembering and forgetting that suffuses moments of purported historical justice-making. Ult…
Working the Indian Field Days: The Economy of Authenticity and the Question of Agency in Yosemite Valley
Working the Indian Field Days: The Economy of Authenticity and the Question of Agency in Yosemite Valley
Enduring Legacy: U.s.-indigenous Violence and the Making of American Innocence in the Gilded Age
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Working the Indian Field Days: The Economy of Authenticity and the Question of Agency in Yosemite Valley
Exchanging Gifts with the Dead: Lava Beds National Monument and Narratives of the Modoc War
This article considers the 1988 dedication of a memorial to United States–Indian violence in far northeastern California to explore the possibilities of historical justice through commemoration andhistorical revisionism. The author explores the anthropological and sociological concept of the gift to expose the limitations of a multicultural marketplace of remembering and forgetting that suffuses moments of purported historical justice-making. Ult…
Enduring Legacy: U.s.-indigenous Violence and the Making of American Innocence in the Gilded Age
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War by Gregory P. Downs
After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War, by Gregory P. Downs. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2015. ix, 342 pp. $32.95 US (cloth). When did the Civil War end? The answer may seem obvious: the day General Robert E. Lee surrendered what was left of the of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. But as Gregory P. Downs' provocative and path-breaking book After Appomattox shows, the end of battle time, the return to peace, and the res…
Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
Melancholia and the Infinite Debate
Discussions of genocide make me melancholy. What are we really talking about when we talk about genocide in American Indian history? Are we preparing legal briefs for international courts and tribunals? Are we weighing evidentiary standards and admissibility requirements? Are we debating jurisdiction and the applicability of various criminal statutes? Or are we talking about genealogies of violence, the enduring legacy of the past in the present …
Andrew Denson. Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory
In 2012, little white signs with red lettering began appearing throughout western North Carolina next to monuments and roadside markers dedicated to Cherokee history. In both English and the Cherokee syllabary, they proclaimed, “we are still here.” The message was simple. Despite America’s collective memory of the United States’ forced removal in the 1830s of several thousands of Indigenous people from their southeastern homelands to a new territ…
The Many Lives of Justiniano Roxas: The Centenarian Fantasy in American History and Memory
The Many Lives of Justiniano Roxas:The Centenarian Fantasy in American History and Memory Boyd Cothran (bio) and Martin Rizzo (bio) SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA. December 1873. The sweet smell of burning redwood met the visitors as they entered the small apartment. The last rays of the winter solstice shone through the window, casting gossamer shadows across the bare pine floor. Earlier that morning, the old man had attended mass at the Holy Cross Chur…
Declared Defective: Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow
In 1912, Arthur H. Estabrook and Charles Davenport, two leading eugenicists, published The Nam Family (1912), an analysis of the rural enclave of Nam Hollow in upstate New York, which, they claimed, demonstrated the biological inheritability of indolence, feeble-mindedness, licentiousness, alcoholism, and criminality. In Declared Defective Robert Jarvenpa sets out to reevaluate The Nam Family by reconstructing the community's history. The result …
A Second Gilded Age? The Promises and Perils of an Analogy: Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Women Warriors and National Heroes: Global Histories
This volume presents women warriors and hero cults from a number of cultures since the early modern period. The first truly global study of women warriors, individual chapters examine figures such as Joan of Arc in Cairo, revenging daughters in Samurai Japan, a transgender Mexican revolutionary and WWII Chinese spies. Exploring issues of violence, gender fluidity, memory and nation-building, the authors discuss how these real or imagined female f…
Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
Reviewed by: Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes Boyd Cothran Nick Estes, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (London and New York: Verso 2019) The day I began reading Nick Estes' provocative Our History is the Future was first day of protests in Toronto in so…
Between Civilization and Savagery: How Reconstruction Era Federal Indian Policy Led to the Indian Wars
This article considers the event of a single year, 1873, to explain how President Ulysses S. Grant's federal Indian policy led to the Indian wars of the late nineteenth century. Some historians have argued that Grant's so-called Peace Policy failed due to systemic mismanagement and corruption; others have suggested it was due to administrative incompetence or ambivalence, while still others have accused the administration of cynicism in its appro…
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