2182039Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontierhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/heart-of-american-darkness-bewilderment-and-horror-on-the-early-frontier/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1937083/fae86943-9713-44aa-8515-8f2a2fca268c.jpg?v=638525005236730000491682MXNW. W. Norton & CompanyInStock/Ebooks/2151175Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier491682https://www.gandhi.com.mx/heart-of-american-darkness-bewilderment-and-horror-on-the-early-frontier/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1937083/fae86943-9713-44aa-8515-8f2a2fca268c.jpg?v=638525005236730000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781324091783_W3siaWQiOiIyMmQ4Y2YwOS1iYTc1LTRiZDgtYTY5OC1mNmI0YmU3MWJiZmMiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjYyNiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjE3Niwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjo0NTAsImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI0LTEyLTAxVDAwOjAwOjAwWiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9XQ==9781324091783_A fundamentally new account of the American frontier, showing that it was defined not by hardy pioneers or imperial power, but by sheer mayhem.We have long been divided over how exceptional the United States is, and that debate has often revolved around the frontier. In Heart of American Darkness, acclaimed historian Robert G. Parkinson presents a startling narrative of the ever-shifting encounters between white colonists and Native Americans. He reveals that the colonization of the interior was not a rational process or heroic deednor the act by which American democracy was forged. Rather, it was as bewildering, violent, and haphazard as European colonization of Africa. Bringing a Conradian lens to the central episodes of the early American frontier from the 1730s through the Revolutionary War, Parkinson follows the intertwined histories of two prominent families, one colonial and the other Native, who helped determine the fate of the empires battling for control of the Ohio River Valley. And in reclaiming the true nature and costs of imperialism, he offers nothing less than a new story of the making of the United States....(*_*)9781324091783_A scarifying, blood-soaked portrait of savagery on the early frontiermuch of it committed by European settlers . . . superb.Kirkus Reviews (starred)An acclaimed historian captures the true nature of imperialism in early America, demonstrating how the frontier shaped the nation.We are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where the full force of an all-powerful empire was brought to bear on Native peoples? In this startingly original work, historian Robert Parkinson presents a new account of ever-shifting encounters between white colonists and Native Americans. Drawing skillfully on Joseph Conrads famous novella, Heart of Darkness, he demonstrates that imperialism in North America was neither heroic nor a perfectly planned conquest. It was, rather, as bewildering, violent, and haphazard as the European colonization of Africa, which Conrad knew firsthand and fictionalized in his masterwork.At the center of Parkinsons story are two families whose entwined histories ended in tragedy. The family of Shickellamy, one of the most renowned Indigenous leaders of the eighteenth century, were Iroquois diplomats laboring to create a world where settlers and Native people could coexist. The Cresaps were frontiersmen who became famous throughout the colonies for their bravado, scheming, and land greed. Together, the families helped determine the fate of the British and French empires, which were battling for control of the Ohio River Valley. From the Seven Years War to the protests over the Stamp Act to the start of the Revolutionary War, Parkinson recounts the major turning points of the era from a vantage that allows us to see them anew, and to perceive how bewildering they were to people at the time.For the Shickellamy family, it all came to an end on April 30, 1774, when most of the clan were brutally murdered by white settlers associated with the Cresaps at a place called Yellow Creek. That horrific event became news all over the continent, and it led to war in the interior, at the very moment the First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, Michael Cresap, at first blamed for the massacre at Yellow Creek, would be transformed by the Revolution into a hero alongside George Washington. In death, he helped cement the pioneer myth at the heart of the new republic.Parkinson argues that American history is, in fact, tied to the frontier, just not in the ways we are often told. Altering our understanding of the past, he also shows what this new understanding should mean for us today....9781324091783_W. W. Norton & Companylibro_electonico_9cdae014-bdfc-336f-a189-bc3917ecbc9a_9781324091783;9781324091783_9781324091783Robert G.InglésMéxico2024-05-28T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/wwnorton-epub-2c2f60cd-a4af-43e1-afb3-bbe7f452f438.epub2024-05-28T00:00:00+00:00W. W. Norton & Company