The Jane Addams Papers: A Comprehensive Guide

Gilje, Paul A.

Bryan, Mary Lynn McCree

Biographies & Memoirs

Indiana University Press

"... 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 century.... a must read for anyone interested in riots." ―Choice
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.

Rioting in America: (Interdisciplinary Studies in History (ISH))

History

Gilje, Paul Arn

Americas

Anyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their bad language were not strictly wedded to maritime things. Instead, sailor swearing, indeed all swearing in this period, was connected to larger developments. This book traces the interaction between the maritime and mainstream world in the United States while examining cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, images, and material goods. To Swear Like a Sailor offers insight into the character of Jack Tar - the common seaman - and into the early republic. It illuminates the cultural connections between Great Britain and the United States and the appearance of a distinct American national identity. The book explores the emergence of sentimental notions about the common man - through the guise of the sailor - appearing on stage, in song, in literature, and in images.

To Swear Like a Sailor

Cambridge University Press

Anyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their bad language were not strictly wedded to maritime things. Instead, sailor swearing, indeed all swearing in this period, was connected to larger developments. This book traces the interaction between the maritime and mainstream world in the United States while examining cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, images, and material goods. To Swear Like a Sailor offers insight into the character of Jack Tar - the common seaman - and into the early republic. It illuminates the cultural connections between Great Britain and the United States and the appearance of a distinct American national identity. The book explores the emergence of sentimental notions about the common man - through the guise of the sailor - appearing on stage, in song, in literature, and in images.

To Swear like a Sailor: Maritime Culture in America, 1750–1850

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 traditional assumptions about the nature of the mob and scrutinizes explanations of its transformation: among them, the loss of a single-interest society, industrialization and changes in the workforce, increased immigration, and the rise of sub-classes in American society. Gilje's findings can be extended to other cities. The lucid narrative incorporates meticulous and exhaustive archival research that unearths hundreds of New York City disturbances -- about the Revolution, bawdy-houses, theaters, dogs and hogs, politics, elections, ethnic conflict, labor actions, religion. Illustrations recreate the turbulent atmosphere of the city; maps, graphs, and tables define the spacial and statistical dimensions of its ferment. The book is a major contribution to our understanding of social change in the early Republic as well as to the history of early New York, urban studies, and rioting.

The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press

Omohundro Institute and UNC Press

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.

Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (Early American Studies)

University of Pennsylvania Press

Winner of the 2004 John Lyman Book Award for U.S. Maritime History from the North American Society for Oceanic History Winner of the 2005 Book Prize of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. 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.

The American Revolution is one of the most studied time periods in U.S. history and a substantial part of the history curriculum in schools. The three-volume Encyclopedia of Revolutionary America is the definitive reference to everything students need to know about this pivotal moment in American history. Written by a preeminent scholar in the field, with a foreword by the esteemed Gary B. Nash, this comprehensive A-to-Z encyclopedia not only includes discussion of the continental U.S., but contains coverage of the Atlantic world and the North American continent as well. Black-and-white illustrations, an index, and appendixes round out the insightful resource. Coverage includes:
<ul>
<li>John Adams</li>
<li>Articles of Confederation</li>
<li>Benjamin Banneker</li>
<li>Bill of Rights</li>
<li>California Indians</li>
<li>Continental army</li>
<li>Cornplanter</li>
<li>Declaration of Independence</li>
<li>Environment</li>
<li>Florida</li>
<li>Benjamin Franklin</li>
<li>French and Indian War</li>
<li>George III</li>
<li>Alexander Hamilton</li>
<li>Immigration</li>
<li>Thomas Jefferson</li>
<li>Latin America</li>
<li>Louisiana Purchase</li>
<li>James Madison</li>
<li>Medicine</li>
<li>Postal service</li>
<li>Race and racial conflict</li>
<li>Revolutionary War</li>
<li>Slavery</li>
<li>Stamp Act</li>
<li>War of 1812</li>
<li>George Washington</li>
<li>Women's status and rights</li>
<li>Yellow fever.</li>
</ul>

Encyclopedia of Revolutionary America

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Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812

On July 2, 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 our 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.

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The Jane Addams Papers: A Comprehensive Guide

Rioting in America: (Interdisciplinary Studies in History (ISH))

To Swear Like a Sailor

To Swear like a Sailor: Maritime Culture in America, 1750–1850

The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (Early American Studies)

Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (Early American Studies)

Encyclopedia of Revolutionary America

Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812