Bind Us Apart - How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

Zusatztext "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." Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext The study of USA's on-going failure to achieve true racial integration! Bind Us Apart shows how! from the Revolution through to the Civil War! white American anti-slavery reformers failed to forge a colour-blind society. Zusammenfassung The study of USA's on-going failure to achieve true racial integration, Bind Us Apart shows how, from the Revolution through to the Civil War, white American anti-slavery reformers failed to forge a colour-blind society.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Guyatt, Nicholas (University Lecturer in American Guyatt, Nicholas (University Lecturer in American History Guyatt
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2016
• EAN: 9780198796541
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879654-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, HISTORY / Modern / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, C 1700 To C 1800