Paul A. Gilje
Professor

email: pgilje@ou.edu
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Area of Specialty
Colonial America, American Revolution

Education
Ph.D. in History, Brown University, June 1980
A. M. in History, Brown University, June 1975
B. A. Brooklyn College, CUNY, magne cum laude, September 1974

Major Publications
Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)

Revolution and New Nation (1754-1820), Vol. 3 in The Facts On File Encyclopedia of American History, editing volume under Gary B. Nash, gen. ed. (New York: Fact on File, 2003)

Rioting in America (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1996)

Capitalism in the Early Republic, a special issue of the Journal of the Early Republic (July 1996).

Published as Wages of Independence: Capitalism in the Early Republic (Madison, Wis: Madison House, 1997)

American Artisans: Explorations in Social Identity, 1750-1850, coedited with Howard Rock and Robert Asher (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)

Keepers of the Revolution: Working Men and Women in New York During the Early Republic, co-edited with Howard Rock (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992)

New York in the Age of the Constitution, co-edited with William Pencak (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press with the New-York Historical Society, 1992)

The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763 to 1834 Chapel Hill, N.C.: (University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, 1987)

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