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About the Author
Nicholas Guyatt is a University Lecturer in American History at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of the United States, including Another American Century: The United States and the World after 9/11 (Zed Books, 2003), Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans are Looking Forward to the End of the World (Random House/Harper Collins, 2007), and most recently Providence and the Invention of the United States (CUP, 2007).
Reviews
"Whether, or on what terms, Indians, Europeans, and Africans could live together on the North American continent has been a vexing question from the very beginning of the American experiment. Bind Us Apart complicates the traditional narrative about the supposedly fixed contours of racial thinking during the early American republic. Nicholas Guyatt offers an elegant and illuminating analysis of the winding and tortured parth to separate and unequal society we recognize even today. This is a must-read for all who are interested in the origins of America's troubled racial landscape." * Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University *
"Nicholas Guyatt's well-meaning citizens of the early American republic believed in human equality and sought to bring it about. But they could not overcome their own of their society's limitations, or undertsnad that Native and African Americans wanted to determine their own furtures. Bind Us Apartc contributes mightility to understanding how the republic besmirched its highest and boldest visions with racisim and exlusion." * Edward Countryman, Southern Methodist University, author of Enjoy the Same Liberty: Black Americans and the Revolutionary Era *
"Nicholas Guyatt is a master storyteller and a brilliant scholar. With Bind Us Apart, he has written a provocative and counterintuitive - but never contrarian or glib - account of the origins of segregation in the United States. This book is absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the racial fault lines that continue to divide this country today." * Ari Leman, McCabe Greer Professor of History, Penn State University, and author of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198796541
Author Nicholas Guyatt
Format Hardback
Page Count 416
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 750g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 176mm * 28mm