MAPS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: DEGRADATION; PART II: AMALGAMATION; PART III: COLONIZATION; EPILOGUE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; INDEX
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).
"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*
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