Heart of American Darkness
Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
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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 startlingly original work, historian Robert Parkinson presents a new account of ever-shifting encounters between white colonists and Native Americans. Drawing skillfully 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 colonization of Africa, which Conrad knew firsthand and fictionalized in his masterwork.
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.
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- De Anonymous User en 10-12-23
De: Steven P. Locke
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American Civil Wars
- A Continental History, 1850-1873
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
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The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights. Taylor relies on vivid characters to carry the story, from Joseph Hooker, whose timidity in crisis was exploited by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Union defeat at Chancellorsville, to Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Black abolitionists whose critical work in Canada and the United States advanced emancipation and the enrollment of Black soldiers in Union armies.
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fascinating!
- De Brandon Marken en 07-12-24
De: Alan Taylor
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic
- Reconstruction, 1860-1920
- De: Manisha Sinha
- Narrado por: Deepa Samuel
- Duración: 21 h y 14 m
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A sweeping narrative that remakes our understanding of perhaps the most consequential period in American history, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic shows how the great contest of that age is also the great contest of our age—and serves as a necessary reminder of how young and fragile our democracy truly is.
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Managing through narration
- De Julie en 06-18-24
De: Manisha Sinha
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This Fierce People
- The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South
- De: Alan Pell Crawford
- Narrado por: Cary Hite
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
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A groundbreaking, important recovery of history; the overlooked story—fully explored—of the critical aspect of America’s Revolutionary War that was fought in the South, showing that the British surrender at Yorktown was the direct result of the southern campaign, and that the battles that emerged south of the Mason-Dixon line between loyalists to the Crown and patriots who fought for independence were, in fact, America’s first civil war.
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Ghastly
- De Wayne en 09-09-24
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The Explorers
- A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
- De: Amanda Bellows
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter, Leon Nixon
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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The archetype of the American explorer, a rugged white man, has dominated our popular culture since the late eighteenth century, when Daniel Boone’s autobiography captivated readers with tales of treacherous journeys. But our commonly held ideas about American exploration do not tell the whole story—far from it. The Explorers rediscovers a diverse group of Americans who went to the western frontier and beyond, traversing the farthest reaches of the globe and even penetrating outer space in their endeavor to find the unknown.
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Needs a different title
- De Madyson Chance en 07-06-24
De: Amanda Bellows
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Nature's Mutiny
- How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
- De: Philipp Blom
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the 16th century plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky, and "frost fairs" were erected on a frozen Thames - with kiosks, taverns, and even brothels that become a semi-permanent part of the city. Recounting the deep legacy and far-ranging consequences of this "Little Ice Age", acclaimed historian Philipp Blom reveals how the European landscape had subtly, but ineradicably, changed by the mid-17th century.
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Starts On Track; End Becomes Ideological Rant
- De Danioton en 06-07-20
De: Philipp Blom
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War Along the Wabash
- The Ohio Indian Confederacy’s Destruction of the U.S. Army, 1791
- De: Steven P. Locke
- Narrado por: Steven P. Locke
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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On November 4, 1791, a coalition of warriors determined to set the Ohio River as a permanent boundary between tribal lands and White settlements faced an army led by Arthur St. Clair—the resulting horrific struggle ended in the greatest defeat of an American army at the hands of Native Americans. The road to the battle of the Wabash began when Arthur St. Clair was appointed to lead an army into the heart of the Ohio Indian Confederacy while building a string of fortifications along the way. He would face difficulties in recruiting, training, feeding, and arming volunteer soldiers.
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Fantastic!
- De Anonymous User en 10-12-23
De: Steven P. Locke
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American Civil Wars
- A Continental History, 1850-1873
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights. Taylor relies on vivid characters to carry the story, from Joseph Hooker, whose timidity in crisis was exploited by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Union defeat at Chancellorsville, to Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Black abolitionists whose critical work in Canada and the United States advanced emancipation and the enrollment of Black soldiers in Union armies.
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fascinating!
- De Brandon Marken en 07-12-24
De: Alan Taylor
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic
- Reconstruction, 1860-1920
- De: Manisha Sinha
- Narrado por: Deepa Samuel
- Duración: 21 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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A sweeping narrative that remakes our understanding of perhaps the most consequential period in American history, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic shows how the great contest of that age is also the great contest of our age—and serves as a necessary reminder of how young and fragile our democracy truly is.
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Managing through narration
- De Julie en 06-18-24
De: Manisha Sinha
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This Fierce People
- The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South
- De: Alan Pell Crawford
- Narrado por: Cary Hite
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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A groundbreaking, important recovery of history; the overlooked story—fully explored—of the critical aspect of America’s Revolutionary War that was fought in the South, showing that the British surrender at Yorktown was the direct result of the southern campaign, and that the battles that emerged south of the Mason-Dixon line between loyalists to the Crown and patriots who fought for independence were, in fact, America’s first civil war.
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Ghastly
- De Wayne en 09-09-24
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The Explorers
- A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
- De: Amanda Bellows
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter, Leon Nixon
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
The archetype of the American explorer, a rugged white man, has dominated our popular culture since the late eighteenth century, when Daniel Boone’s autobiography captivated readers with tales of treacherous journeys. But our commonly held ideas about American exploration do not tell the whole story—far from it. The Explorers rediscovers a diverse group of Americans who went to the western frontier and beyond, traversing the farthest reaches of the globe and even penetrating outer space in their endeavor to find the unknown.
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Needs a different title
- De Madyson Chance en 07-06-24
De: Amanda Bellows
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Nature's Mutiny
- How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
- De: Philipp Blom
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the 16th century plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky, and "frost fairs" were erected on a frozen Thames - with kiosks, taverns, and even brothels that become a semi-permanent part of the city. Recounting the deep legacy and far-ranging consequences of this "Little Ice Age", acclaimed historian Philipp Blom reveals how the European landscape had subtly, but ineradicably, changed by the mid-17th century.
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Starts On Track; End Becomes Ideological Rant
- De Danioton en 06-07-20
De: Philipp Blom
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The Hamilton Scheme
- An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding
- De: William Hogeland
- Narrado por: William Hogeland
- Duración: 17 h y 37 m
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Alexander Hamilton has become a global celebrity. Millions know his name and imagine knowing the man. But what did he really want for the country? What risks did he run in pursuing those vaulting ambitions? Who tried to stop him? How did they fight? It's ironic that the Hamilton revival has obscured the man's most dramatic battles and hardest-won achievements—as well as downplaying unsettling aspects of his legacy.
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Unknown to me
- De J. D. Howard en 10-21-24
De: William Hogeland
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An Emancipation of the Mind
- Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America
- De: Matthew Stewart
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War.
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Powerful revisionist history on race, racism, and the American past (and present)
- De James H. McDonald en 07-14-24
De: Matthew Stewart
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Underwriters of the United States
- How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
- De: Hannah Farber
- Narrado por: Linda Jones
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development.
De: Hannah Farber
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The First Frontier
- The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
- De: Scott Weidensaul
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 16 h y 16 m
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Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier - the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans.Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground - when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land.
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Too PC
- De Eric en 07-24-13
De: Scott Weidensaul
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The Deerfield Massacre
- A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
- De: James L. Swanson
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little town in western Massachusetts there stands what once was the most revered relic from the history of early New England: the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre of 1704.
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repetitive and bloated
- De DLR en 04-01-24
De: James L. Swanson
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Populus
- Living and Dying in Ancient Rome
- De: Guy de la Bédoyère
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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Frenzied crowds, talking ravens, the stench of the Tiber River: life in ancient Rome was stimulating, dynamic, and often downright dangerous. The Romans relaxed and gossiped in baths, stole precious water from aqueducts, and partied and dined to excess. From the smells of fragrant cookshops and religious sacrifices to the cries of public executions and murderous electoral mobs, Guy de la Bedoyere's Populus draws on a host of historical and literary sources to transport us into the intensity of daily life at the height of ancient Rome.
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Narration is excellent!
- De Richard Curry en 08-10-24
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An Unholy Traffic
- Slave Trading in the Civil War South
- De: Robert K. D. Colby
- Narrado por: James R. Cheatham
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men, women, and children. These transactions in humanity made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society, a bulwark of the Rebel economy, and a central part of the experience of the Civil War for all inhabiting the American South.
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Decade of Disunion
- How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861
- De: Robert W. Merry
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 16 h y 49 m
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The Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States, which precipitated a growing crisis over slavery. The new territories seemed unsuitable for the type of agriculture that depended on slave labor, but they lay south of the line where slavery was permitted by the 1820 Missouri Compromise. The subject of expanding slavery to the new territories became a flash point between North and South.
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Very good overview of the period
- De Mike From Mesa en 09-24-24
De: Robert W. Merry
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The Last Campaign
- Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 15 h y 40 m
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William Tecumseh Sherman and Geronimo were keen strategists and bold soldiers, ruthless with their enemies. Over the course of the 1870s and 1880s these two war chiefs would confront each other in the final battle for what the American West would be: a sparsely settled, wild home where Indian tribes could thrive, or a densely populated extension of the America to the east of the Mississippi.
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Outstanding Unbiased Native American History
- De Paul W. Brazis en 11-07-22
De: H. W. Brands
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Dunmore's War
- The Last Conflict of America’s Colonial Era
- De: Glenn F. Williams
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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Known to history as "Dunmore's War", the 1774 campaign against a Shawnee-led Indian confederacy in the Ohio Country marked the final time an American colonial militia took to the field in His Majesty's service and under royal command. Led by John Murray, the fourth Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, a force of colonials including George Rogers Clark, Daniel Morgan, Michael Cresap, Adam Stephen, and Andrew Lewis successfully enforced the western border established by treaties in parts of present-day West Virginia and Kentucky.
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Well Done!
- De Scott Arbuckle en 02-11-20
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Ages of American Capitalism
- A History of the United States
- De: Jonathan Levy
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 31 h y 44 m
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Today, in the midst of a new economic crisis and severe political discord, the nature of capitalism in United States is at a crossroads. Since the market crash and Great Recession of 2008, historian Jonathan Levy has been teaching a course to help his students understand everything that had happened to reach that disaster and the current state of the economy, but in doing so he discovered something more fundamental about American history. Now, in an ambitious single-volume history of the United States, he reveals how capitalism in America has evolved through four distinct ages.
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The narrator. The book.
- De Jack en 08-22-21
De: Jonathan Levy
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The Memory of ’76
- The Revolution in American History
- De: Michael D. Hattem
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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Americans agree that their nation’s origins lie in the Revolution, but they have never agreed on what the Revolution meant. For nearly 250 years, politicians, political parties, social movements, and a diverse array of ordinary Americans have constantly reimagined the Revolution to fit the times and suit their own agendas. Michael D. Hattem reveals how conflicts over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution—including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution—have influenced the most important events and tumultuous periods in the nation’s history.