Books written by Nicholas Guyatt
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Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607–1876
135 Richard Watson, in another echo of American rhetoric, even imagined that Britain might suffer from the flipside of America's universalizing of the principles of liberty: “I wish I could consider our acquisitions in Asia as ...
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
Hopkins to Sharp, 15 January 1789, Zachary Macaulay to Hopkins, 19 March 1795 and 20 October 1796, in Hopkins, “Memoir,” 1:140–142, 150–153; Hunt, William Thornton, 18–19; Pybus, Epic Journeys, 202; Sidbury, Becoming African in America, ...
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Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876
Abraham Campion, a minister from Buckinghamshire, admitted in 1694 that England might be specially favored by God, but he also suggested that any Christian nation could “have as good a title to the temporal promises of God, ...
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Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans are Looking
Even though the war in Iraq is going badly for America, some pundits are predicting that the Bush administration will go to war with Iran. Does John Hagee know something that the rest of us don't? “We are standing on the brink of a ...
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Another American Century: The United States and the World Since 9/11
President Jimmy Carter was responsible for legislation in the US to curb the arms trade , but his efforts met with considerable opposition from the very beginning , and subsequent presidential administrations ( and Congresses ) have ...
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
When Belknap circulated Tucker's reply to his Massachusetts friends, their eyes caught on that alarming phrase. John Adams challenged Tucker's premise directly: “What is justice? Justice to the negroes would require that they should not ...
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The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison
The Hated Cage documents the extraordinary but separate communities these men built within the prison—and the terrible massacre of nine Americans by prison guards that destroyed these worlds.
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Another American Century: The United States and the World Since 9/11
Did September 11th change everything? Is George W. Bush responsible for America's international isolation? Why did the United States declare 'war on terror', and what does this war mean for...
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Another American Century?: The United States and the World After 2000
The book describes the ways in which the US shapes the world in which we live.
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Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876
The development, and costs, of the idea that God has a special plan for America.
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America's racial crisis Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"?...
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
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.
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Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876
Nicholas Guyatt offers a completely new understanding of a central question in American history: how did Americans come to think that God favored the United States above other nations?
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War, Empire and Slavery, 1770-1830
The imperial warfare of the period 1770-1830, including the American wars of independence and the Napoleonic wars, affected every continent. Covering southern India, the Caribbean, North and South America, and...