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American Hauntings

The True Stories behind Hollywood's Scariest Movies—from The Exorcist to The Conjuring

By: Robert E. Bartholomew,Joe Nickell

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American Hauntings

The True Stories behind Hollywood's Scariest Movies—from The Exorcist to The Conjuring

By: Robert E. Bartholomew,Joe Nickell

This work provides an accurate, in-depth examination and scientific evaluation of the most famous hauntings in American history as depicted in popular films and television programs. Neither a debunking book nor one written for the "true believer" in the paranormal, American Hauntings objectively scrutinizes the historic evidence behind such hugely popular films as The Exorcist, The Amityville Horror, An American Haunting, The Conjuring, and The Haunting in Connecticut to ascertain the accuracy of these entertainment depictions of "true life" hauntings. The authors then compare these popular culture accounts against the alleged real-life encounters and impartially weigh the evidence to assess whether each incident actually took place. Written by highly credentialed, recognized authorities on the paranormal and social psychology, this book contains meticulously documented, science-based information written for a broad audience, from middle and high school students and those taking introductory courses at a university level to general readers. There is no other work that provides as careful and unbiased an evaluation of the most famous hauntings in American history. The book also examines the reliability of popular television shows such as Unsolved Mysteries and Paranormal Witness.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440839697

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Applied Mergers and Acquisitions

By: Robert F. Bruner

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Applied Mergers and Acquisitions

By: Robert F. Bruner

A comprehensive guide to the world of mergers and acquisitions Why do so many M&A transactions fail? And what drives the success of those deals that are consummated? Robert Bruner explains that M&A can be understood as a response by managers to forces of turbulence in their environment. Despite the material failure rates of mergers and acquisitions, those pulling the trigger on key strategic decisions can make them work if they spend great care and rigor in the development of their M&A deals. By addressing the key factors of M&A success and failure, Applied Mergers and Acquisitions can help readers do this. Written by one of the foremost thinkers and educators in the field, this invaluable resource teaches readers the art and science of M&A valuation, deal negotiation, and bargaining, and provides a framework for considering tradeoffs in an effort to optimize the value of any M&A deal.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118436393

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9781118436394

Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, & Stickers

A Complete and Illustrated Catalogue of Antique Barbed Wire

By: Robert T. Clifton

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Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, & Stickers

A Complete and Illustrated Catalogue of Antique Barbed Wire

By: Robert T. Clifton

Contains a complete and illustrated catalogue of antique barbed wire.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806108762

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9780806108766

Warships of the Napoleonic Era

Design, Development and Deployment

By: ROBERT GARDINER

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Warships of the Napoleonic Era

Design, Development and Deployment

By: ROBERT GARDINER

Between 1793 and 1815 two decades of unrelenting naval warfare raised the sailing man of war to the zenith of its effectiveness as a weapon of war. Every significant sea power was involved in this conflict, and at some point virtually all of them were arrayed against Great Britain. A large number of enemy warships were captured in battle and the Admiralty ordered accurate drafts to be made of many of these prizes. Consequently, ships from the navies of France, Spain, the United States, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, as well as from Britain, were illustrated by an unprecedented variety of paintings, drawings, models or plans.

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Naval Institute Press

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1612519679

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Us and Them

Canada, Canadians and The Beatles

By: John Robert Arnone

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Us and Them

Canada, Canadians and The Beatles

By: John Robert Arnone

Us and Them chronicles the depth to which Canada and Canadians were part of The Beatles’ story—their formation, growth and break up. Entertaining and well researched, Us and Them places John, Paul, George and Ringo as a band and as solo artists in a uniquely Canadian setting; it blends rich stories, facts, analysis, and even dabbles in several plausible but little known accounts that create a new ripple in The Beatles’ history. After consuming Us and Them, readers will never again listen to albums Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the White Album, or singles “Come Together”, “Give Peace a Chance”, “All Things Must Pass”, “Imagine” and “Mull of Kintyre” without thinking about these masterworks in a Canadian context. Us and Them is a thorough account of the Fab Four's relationship with Canada, filling an important gap in their narrative and discography.

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FriesenPress

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1039196721

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9781039196728

The G.H.O.S.T. Project

Heaven's Harp

By: Robert A Bolduc

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The G.H.O.S.T. Project

Heaven's Harp

By: Robert A Bolduc

Scott Hardy is a quantum physicist ahead of his time. He theorized that ghosts were manifestations of alternate universes, and he spent most of his life proving those universes are real, and we can travel to them. When he asked the government for funding, they took his project away from him. Twenty years later, the government thought they solved the critical problem of keeping matter from Earth permanent in other universes. An exploratory mission was sent to another universe and is now trapped there. After the exploration team left, the project discovered that matter from Earth will eventually dissolve and be absorbed by other universes. Time is running out for the explorers, so the project turns to Scott Hardy for help to get the people back before they die. Hardy reluctantly agrees to help, but when he arrives at the secret base where the government runs his project, attempts are made on his life. It seems the project isn't exactly secret, and someone wants it to fail. Can Hardy help the project team get their people home before their time runs out?

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Page Publishing Inc

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1641380055

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9781641380058

Where is Sam

By: Robert Frey

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Where is Sam

By: Robert Frey

Emily Carson was an elementary schoolteacher married for ten years to a real estate broker named Sam. One day Sam unexpectedly vanished. She picked up the missing person’s case of her husband when local police were unable to come up with any results and they closed the file. She hired a private investigator to help her find out what happened to Sam and why. What she learned along the way about her husband’s family was disturbing. He never spoke of his past or his childhood. She we

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Page Publishing Inc

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1640826203

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The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa

By: Robert Noah

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The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa

By: Robert Noah

The Marquis de Valfierno spent his life preparing to become the man who stole the Mona Lisa. We are introduced to him in Buenos Aires, where the criminal mastermind with exquisite taste in art and women has built a highly profitable business selling fake religious masterpieces to grieving widows. A botched love affair forces him to head for Mexico City, where he discovers new ventures and greater profits for his art. In Mexico, he begins to assemble the team that will move with him to Paris. He enlists such talents as those of Yves Chaudron, a master painter without a touch of creative instinct; young Miguel, a crippled street urchin; and Mme Renard, a savvy woman of many faces. Valfierno will move his team to the scene of the crime, Paris. There he is tempted by nothing more than the imminent theft of the world's most celebrated painting. He could not have anticipated that this theft would be but the beginning. The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa is a beautifully written blend of mystery and history. Robert Noah artfully guides his readers through the turns of an intrigue-filled and delicious story.

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St. Martin's Press

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1466877537

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Follow the Setting Sun

More Adventures with the Rangers in Texas, Mexico, and Beyond (A Novel)

By: Robert J. Eells

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Follow the Setting Sun

More Adventures with the Rangers in Texas, Mexico, and Beyond (A Novel)

By: Robert J. Eells

Follow is a sequel to Tex Med and continues the saga of a medical student, John McFarland, who meets opportunities and challenges in Texas and elsewhere in the months prior to Americas entry into the Great War. His girlfriend, Heather, returns as well as several characters from the first novel. Introduced here are many new fictional characters, including Johns cousin, Ted, new Rangers, Native Americans, oil field roustabouts, and bad guys aplenty. New real historical figures are presented who interact with the fictional ones in interesting ways, such as Aimee Semple McPherson, Pancho Villa, Jim Thorpe, D.W. Griffith, and Wyatt Earp. Enjoy. And theres more to come, for a trilogy is planned to tie everything together.

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AuthorHouse

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1504926943

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Becoming a Master Manager

A Competing Values Approach

By: Robert E. Quinn,David S. Bright,Rachel E. Sturm

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Becoming a Master Manager

A Competing Values Approach

By: Robert E. Quinn,David S. Bright,Rachel E. Sturm

Integrating theory and empirical evidence, Becoming a Master helps students and future managers master the dynamics and intricacies of the modern business environment. The text’s unique “competing values framework” provides a deep and holistic understanding of what is required to effectively manage any type of organization. Readers learn to develop and apply critical managerial skills that encourage change, promote adaptability, build stability, maintain continuity, strengthen commitment and cohesion, and yield positive organizational results. The seventh edition features new and revised content throughout, offering students a comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of critical management competencies and their underlying theoretical value intentions and real-life application. Throughout the text, classroom-tested exercises enable students to assess, analyze, practice, and apply the material while gaining insight into the paradoxes and contradictions that make the practice of management so complex.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119710960

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Gangs, Drugs and Youth Adversity

Continuity and Change

By: Deuchar, Ross,McLean, Robert

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Gangs, Drugs and Youth Adversity

Continuity and Change

By: Deuchar, Ross,McLean, Robert

In Glasgow, street gangs have existed for decades, with knife crime becoming a defining feature. More than a decade on from Deuchar’s original fieldwork, this book explores the transitional experiences of some of the young men he worked with, as well as the experiences of today’s young people and the practitioners who work to support them. Through empirical data, policy analysis and contemporary insights, this dynamic book explores the evolving nature of gangs, and the contemporary challenges affecting young people including drug distribution, football-related bigotry and the mental health repercussions emerging from social media.

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Policy Press

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1529210577

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9781529210576

Cousins

Rangers, Racism, and Redemption in Early Twentieth Century Texas

By: Robert J. Eells

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Cousins

Rangers, Racism, and Redemption in Early Twentieth Century Texas

By: Robert J. Eells

Cousins is the third volume of the Tex Med trilogy. The medical student John McFarland was the primary focus of the first two volumes. Cousins, however, concentrates mostly on Johns cousin, Ted Townley, and his adventures as a deputy sheriff in his hometown of Los Indios, Texas. Follow him and others, including his three Texas Ranger buddies, as they fight Mexican bandits, drug smugglers, a corrupt cattle baron, and the resurgence of the new Ku Klux Klan. Also follow Annes efforts to smooth out her boyfriend Teds rough edges so that their future would be similar to Johns with his girlfriend, Heather. Adventures, romances, moral struggles, and lots of medicine all come together in this historical novel set near the Rio Grande during the onset of World War One.

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1524685178

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9781524685171

The Phantom Detective

Notes of Doom

By: Robert Wallace

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The Phantom Detective

Notes of Doom

By: Robert Wallace

Follow the Phantom on the breath-taking trail of a ghastly series of sinister crimes perpetrated by a supercriminal who holds promissory notes for the lives of his victims! Ripped from the pages of the June, 1935 issue of "The Phantom Detective" magazine, here is the complete lead novel (including illustrations) -- NOTES OF DOOM! Thrilling pulp action!

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Wildside Press LLC

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143447397X

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9781434473974

The Tarot

History, Symbolism, and Divination

By: Robert Place

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The Tarot

History, Symbolism, and Divination

By: Robert Place

The Tarot is one of the few books that cuts through conventional misperceptions to explore the Tarot deck as it really developed in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Europe-not, as some would suggest, in the far reaches of Egyp-tian antiquity. Mining the Hermetic, alchemical, and Neoplatonic influences behind the evolution of the deck, author Robert M. Place provides a historically grounded and compelling portrait of the Tarot's true origins, without overlooking the deck's mystical dimensions. Indeed, Place uncommonly weds reliable historiography with a practical understanding of the intuitive help and divinatory guidance that the cards can bring. He presents techniques that offer new and valuable ways to read and interpret the cards. Based on a simple three-card spread, Place's approach can be used by either the seasoned practitioner or the new inquirer.

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Penguin

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1440649758

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Discover Magazine's Vital Signs

True Tales of Medical Mysteries, Obscure Diseases, and Life-Saving Diagnoses

By: Robert A. Norman

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Discover Magazine's Vital Signs

True Tales of Medical Mysteries, Obscure Diseases, and Life-Saving Diagnoses

By: Robert A. Norman

“Vital Signs,” a popular column featured in Discover Magazine, has long been a favorite of readers, showcasing, each month, fascinating new tales of strange illnesses and diseases that baffle doctors and elude diagnosis. Each tale is true and borders on the unbelievable. It’s no wonder that throughout the years the column has become an unofficial textbook for medical students, interns, doctors, and anyone interested in human illness and staying healthy. Now, physician and “Vital Signs” editor Robert Norman has compiled the very best of the series into an intriguing and suspenseful collection for fans and new readers alike. A young woman carries a baby that wasn’t her own—and wasn’t even a human; Aretha Franklin gives a physician the insight needed to save a life; a modern gynecologist faces an ancient disease. These cases and more, representing a wide variety of unique medical anomalies and life-or-death situations, bring readers to the front lines of the medical fray. Fans of hit medical dramas such as House MD will savor the opportunity to read of the real-life cases that puzzled doctors, the gripping detective work that ensued, and the completely unexpected, often life-saving diagnoses. Discover Magazine’s Vital Signs is a glimpse into the exciting work of real medical professionals, told from their perspective, and revealing that anything can happen in medicine. Readers will never look at a “routine check-up” the same again.

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Simon and Schuster

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1628734604

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Atmospheric Ultraviolet Remote Sensing

By: Robert E. Huffman

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Atmospheric Ultraviolet Remote Sensing

By: Robert E. Huffman

This book is an introduction to the use of the ultraviolet for remote sensing of the Earth's atmosphere. It covers the Earth's UV radiative environment, experimental techniques, and current applications. it is my intention to provide the information needed to "make a first approximation" concerning the use of the ultraviolet and to provide access through the literature for a more thorough study.* Contains recent UV applications not previously available in book form such as ozone, auroral images, and ionospheric sensing* Features broad coverage of fundamentals of atmospheric geophysics with values for fluxes, cross-sections, and radiances* Covers techniques that illustrate principles of measurements with typical values* Contains numerous references to original literature

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Academic Press

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0080918808

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9780080918808

The Case of the Threatened King

By: Robert Newman

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The Case of the Threatened King

By: Robert Newman

From the ancient sewers of London to the heights of a barren attic prison, Andrew and Sara race to uncover a wicked plot Though he’s usually more of a cricket fan, Andrew Tillet would never miss a chance to see American baseball played in London—especially not in the company of his best friends, Sara Wiggins and Inspector Peter Wyatt. And of course it’s nice to bump into Wyatt’s charming sister-in-law, Harriet, on their way home. When Harriet disappears with nothing but a cryptic note left behind, Wyatt doesn’t seem as concerned as Andrew and Sara think he should be. And when someone else disappears, someone even closer to Wyatt, the clock starts ticking down.

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Open Road Media

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1497685990

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9781497685994

The Encyclopedia of Old Fishing Lures

Made in North America

By: A. Slade Robert a. Slade,Robert A. Slade

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The Encyclopedia of Old Fishing Lures

Made in North America

By: A. Slade Robert a. Slade,Robert A. Slade

Robert A. Slade, after collecting old fishing tackle since 1958 and contributing articles on old fishing lures for a collector magazine for several years started researching and writing books in the 1990's. He published the HISTORY & COLLECTIBLE FISHING TACKLE OF WISCONSIN in 1999 which sold 4,500 copies. Bob realized that even though there have been many books published on the subject of old fishing lures that few books covered any detailed history on the old lure makers. His latest book writing project was nine years in the making and covers over 100 years of lure making history starting in 1875 and covers over 2,500 lures makers throughout all of North America. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OLD FISHING LURES MADE IN NORTH AMERICA is the first publication with extensive history and patent information on old lure makers and the first to include extensive coverage on Canadian lure makers. The author traveled to 11 states and 3 Candian Providences visting collectors homes, newspaper archives, museums and other sources and has taken over 10,000 pictures in preparing the historical stories for these books. The set of books arranges for the individual and company lures makers to appear in alphabetical order. People purchasing these books can buy any one single book, a whole set, or even a book a month if they desire as the books will be printed and shipped on demand. Each book has over 400 pages of text, pictures and collector values with each book containing a table of contents and index as well as a master index for the complete set of books.

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Trafford Publishing

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1425152481

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9781425152482

The Parsifal Mosaic

A Novel

By: Robert Ludlum

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The Parsifal Mosaic

A Novel

By: Robert Ludlum

Michael Havelock’s world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava as he watched his partner and lover, double agent Jenna Karas, efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There’s nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Then, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock sees Jenna. Racing around the globe in search of his beautiful betrayer, Havelock is now marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist: Parsifal. Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Parsifal Mosaic “[Robert] Ludlum’s narrative imagination is a force of nature.”—The New York Times “As fast-paced and absorbing as any he’s written.”—Newsday “The suspense never lets up.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A crackling good yarn.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

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Bantam

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0345539222

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9780345539229

The Nature of Midnight

By: Robert Rice

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The Nature of Midnight

By: Robert Rice

While investigating the murder of a postal worker and a customer, U.S. Postal Inspectors Gillian Loomis and Max Dombrowski discover a link between the contemporary deaths and the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915.

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Macmillan

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0765303604

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9780765303608

Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier

By: Robert G. Parkinson

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Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier

By: Robert G. Parkinson

“A scarifying, blood-soaked portrait of savagery on the early frontier—much 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 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. At the center of Parkinson’s 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.

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1324091789

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