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Heart of Dark about empire in the making, exploitation, derangement, not being able to understand what’s really going on
Book tries get us comfortable w/, accept bewilderment, confusion & mystery as creative historical forces—helps capture what like to live thru imperial encounter: “colonists-Natives bewilder by experience of imperialism all around them”
Story of how exper of empire-making affect partic ppl
— Apr 25, 2025 08:43PM
Book tries get us comfortable w/, accept bewilderment, confusion & mystery as creative historical forces—helps capture what like to live thru imperial encounter: “colonists-Natives bewilder by experience of imperialism all around them”
Story of how exper of empire-making affect partic ppl
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“Another penetrating-& adaptable-observ from Conrad:” ppl needed to listen to/wrestle w/confounding nature & effects of imperial encounter
Book takes insp from HoD to take a fresh look @ Am past…
“Colonialism throws a kind of light on everything about the US. Americans today need to tell/listen to these somber pitiful bewild & unclear stories—b/c the frontier helped make Am, just not in way most think
— Apr 25, 2025 09:10PM
Book takes insp from HoD to take a fresh look @ Am past…
“Colonialism throws a kind of light on everything about the US. Americans today need to tell/listen to these somber pitiful bewild & unclear stories—b/c the frontier helped make Am, just not in way most think
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“Imperialism has insidious effects on those who fully engaged in it”—Kurtz
Conrad tho was one-sided; this book “makes Indig ppl visible”
C: “in the midst of the incompr”—in early US ppl will shed names, switch sides, fall/redemption, savages become patriots & vice versa
Historian Fredrick J Turner told story of frontier as “west expansion” only, w/“perennial rebirth”-base of Am character
— Apr 25, 2025 09:01PM
Conrad tho was one-sided; this book “makes Indig ppl visible”
C: “in the midst of the incompr”—in early US ppl will shed names, switch sides, fall/redemption, savages become patriots & vice versa
Historian Fredrick J Turner told story of frontier as “west expansion” only, w/“perennial rebirth”-base of Am character
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Schickellamy & Cresap families collided @ Yellow Creek
Shick fam close to Logans, PA agent was S counterpart on other side
Hard to make sense of incidents like Yellow Creek
Conrad’s Heart of Darkness expl senselessness of empire; “put us ill @ ease by absurdity & cruelty of imperial Congo”—BEWILDERMENT
Bringing C’s vision of empire to early US: “seeing what empire did to ppl in that time & place”
— Apr 25, 2025 08:34PM
Shick fam close to Logans, PA agent was S counterpart on other side
Hard to make sense of incidents like Yellow Creek
Conrad’s Heart of Darkness expl senselessness of empire; “put us ill @ ease by absurdity & cruelty of imperial Congo”—BEWILDERMENT
Bringing C’s vision of empire to early US: “seeing what empire did to ppl in that time & place”
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April 1774, Yellow Creek Massacre: ambush & murder of 8 Native negotiators, incl. Schickellamy’s wife, youngest son & a daughter, at Cresap family home
Schickellamy: “one of most significant Iroquois leaders of mid-18th c.”; ambassador for his ppl, tried to forge deals b/t colonists & Natives
Cresaps: “indispensable actors in col expansion that spilled into Upper OH valley by the 1750s
— Apr 25, 2025 08:16PM
Schickellamy: “one of most significant Iroquois leaders of mid-18th c.”; ambassador for his ppl, tried to forge deals b/t colonists & Natives
Cresaps: “indispensable actors in col expansion that spilled into Upper OH valley by the 1750s
