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Rioting in America
" . . . a sweeping, analytical synethsis of collective violence from the colonial experience to the present." —American Studies "Gilje has written 'the book' on rioting throughout American history." —The Historian ". . . a thorough, illuminating, and at times harrowing account of man's inhumanity to man." —William and Mary Quarterly " . . . fulfills its title's promise as an encyclopedic study . . . an impressive accomplishment and required reading for anyone interested in America's contentious past." —Journal of the Early Republic "Gilje has written a thought-provoking survey of the social context of American riots and popular disorders from the Colonial period to the late 20th cent...
Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812
On 2 July 1812, Captain David Porter raised a banner on the USS Essex proclaiming 'a free trade and sailors rights', thus creating a political slogan that explained the War of 1812. Free trade demanded the protection of American commerce, while sailors' rights insisted that the British end the impressment of seamen from American ships. Repeated for decades in Congress and in taverns, the slogan reminds us today that the second war with Great Britain was not a mistake. It was a contest for the ideals of the American Revolution bringing together both the high culture of the Enlightenment to establish a new political economy and the low culture of the common folk to assert the equality of humankind. Understanding the War of 1812 and the motto that came to explain it – free trade and sailors' rights – allows us to better comprehend the origins of the American nation.
To Swear like a Sailor
This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.
The Road to Mobocracy
The Road to Mobocracy is the first major study of public disorder in New York City from the Revolutionary period through the Jacksonian era. During that time, the mob lost its traditional, institutional role as corporate safety valve and social corrective, tolerated by public officials. It became autonomous, a violent menace to individual and public good expressing the discordant urges and fears of a pluralistic society. Indeed, it tested the premises of democratic government. Paul Gilje relates the practices of New York mobs to their American and European roots and uses both historical and anthropological methods to show how those mobs adapted to local conditions. He questions many of the t...
Rioting in America
In this wide-ranging survey of rioting in America, Paul A. Gilje argues that we cannot fully comprehend the history of the United States without an understanding of the impact of rioting. Exploring the rationale of the American mob brings to light the grievances that motivate its behavior and the historical circumstances that drive the choices it makes. Gilje's unusual lens makes for an eye-opening view of the American people and their history.
Liberty on the Waterfront
Through careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with the Founding Fathers had a much more immediate and complex meaning than previously thought. In Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution, life aboard warships, merchantmen, and whalers, as well as the interactions of mariners and others on shore, is recreated in absorbing detail. Describing the important contributions of sailors to the resistance movement against Great Britain and their experiences during the Revolutionary War, Gilje demonstrates that, while sailors recognized the ideals of the Revolution, their idea of liberty was far more individual in nature—often expressed through hard drinking and womanizing or joining a ship of their choice. Gilje continues the story into the post-Revolutionary world highlighted by the Quasi War with France, the confrontation with the Barbary Pirates, and the War of 1812.
Encyclopedia of Revolutionary America: H to R
Contains entries that provide information about notable people, places, organizations, battles, and other events and topics in the history of Revolutionary America, covering a period that ranges from the French and Indian War in 1754 to the end of the War of 1812 in 1815.
Cycles of Life
Part travelogue, part memoir, part history. With wit and self-deprecating humor, Paul Gilje brings the reader along on two bicycle road tours. When Gilje was seventeen, he biked from Brooklyn to Montreal at the end of the summer in 1968. When he was sixty-seven, he repeated (sort of) the trip at the end of the summer of 2018. The first ride marked the transition from adolescence to adulthood; the second ride marked the transition from adulthood (fully employed) to post-adulthood (fully retired). The journeys took him from his working-class Brooklyn neighborhood, through the steel and concrete canyons of Manhattan, into the majestic Hudson Valley, across the foothills of the Adirondacks, to French-speaking Canada. Gilje recounts his personal odysseys in 1968 and 2018, describing his trials, tribulations and triumphs. Using his training as a historian Gilje draws comparisons between the world around him in each year. Cycles of Life is funny and honest with an oscillating through-line that makes juxtaposing 1968 and 2018 feel fluid and lived, rather than like a static analysis of snapshots in time.
Moral Contagion
During the Antebellum era, thousands of free black sailors were arrested for violating the Negro Seamen Acts. In retelling the harrowing experiences of free black sailors, Moral Contagion highlights the central roles that race and international diplomacy played in the development of American citizenship.
