Böcker av Paul A. Gilje

In this book a rich selection of documents captures the work experience of ordinary, previously anonymous New Yorkers in the early years of the republic.

In this collection of essays, social and economic historians consider the rise of capitalism in the early American republic and demonstrate the centrality of common men and women as artisans, laborers, planters, and farmers in the dramatic transitions of the period.

Provides the first major study of public disorder in New York City from the Revolutionary period through the Jacksonian era. 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.

Talks about what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. This book shows that the idealized vision of liberty associated with the Founding Fathers had a much more immediate and complex meaning than previously thought.