Heart of American Darkness – A Story of Murder and Revolution on the Early Frontier - Robert G. Parkinson

In this startingly original work, Robert Parkinson presents a new account of ever-shifting encounters between white colonists and Native Americans. Drawing skilfully on Joseph Conrad’s 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 colonisation of Africa. Bringing a Conradian lens to the central episodes of the early American frontier from... Zobrazit více