Jay Gitlin

Biographic Data

ID1010480
NAMEJay Gitlin
GIVEN NAMESJay
FAMILY NAMEGitlin
SIGNATUREGITLIN J
AFFILIATIONSYale University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS23
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • The Chiefs Now in This City: ” Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America. By Colin G. Calloway

    Open AccessJay GitlinARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2023

    Journal Article “The Chiefs Now in This City:” Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America. By Colin G. Calloway Get access “The Chiefs Now in This City:” Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America Colin G. Calloway(New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xiv + 265 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $29.95.) Jay Gitlin Jay Gitlin Yale UniversityNew Haven, Connecticut, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on:…

  • French St. Louis: Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy

    Jay Gitlin, Robert Michael Morrissey et al.BOOKFrench St. Louis2021

  • Introduction: Créolité: Identity, History, Culture/Kreyòl: Métissage, hybridité, bricolage

    Jay Gitlin, Ryan André BrasseauxARTICLEQuebec Studies2021

  • Changing Perspectives: Suburbia from the Outside

    Open AccessJay GitlinARTICLEJournal of Urban History2020

    Keywords urban–rural migration, suburbanization, middle-class African Americans, Brookline (Massachusetts), Cleveland

  • St. Louis Rising: The French Regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive . By Carl J. Ekberg and Sharon K. Person

    Jay GitlinARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2016

    The field of French colonial history or the history of French North America has been gaining an increasing amount of attention, whether we measure that increase in books and articles or graduate student interest. Recent books confirm that the study of the French and native worlds of mid-America is rich and bursting with fresh content and perspectives that ought to compel us to rethink the tiresome Anglocentric limitations of our approaches and te…

  • Frontier Cities: Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire

    Jay Gitlin, Barbara Berglund et al.BOOKFrontier Cities2013

    Frontier Cities recovers the history of borderland cities in a range of periods and locations—from eighteenth-century Detroit and nineteenth-century Seattle to twentieth-century Los Angeles. Frontier cities embody the earliest mode of American urban experience and testify to the intersections of colonial, urban, western, and global history

  • Books

    Brij V Lal, Jay Gitlin et al.ARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2012

  • The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion

    Jay GitlinBOOKThe Bourgeois Frontier2009

    "The Bourgeois Frontier" published on by Yale University Press.

  • Beyond St. Louis: Negotiating the Course of Empire

    Jay GitlinCHAPTERThe Bourgeois Frontier2009

    The French, particularly the Chouteau family, were remarkably successful as merchants in St. Louis, not only because of their entrepreneurial skill and their political acumen, but also because of their connections and land claims. Moreover, their geographical position in Missouri allowed them to make profits out of frontiers in transition even as they were consolidating their control of the fur trade on the Upper Missouri and elsewhere in the new…

  • The Bourgeois Frontier: The French Frontier in North America, 1763-1863

    Jay GitlinBOOKThe Bourgeois Frontier2008

    "Histories tend to emphasize conquest by Anglo-Americans as the driving force behind the development of the American West. In this fresh interpretation, Jay Gitlin argues that the activities of the French are crucial to understanding the phenomenon of westward expansion. The Seven Years War brought an end to the French colonial enterprise in North America, but the French in towns such as New Orleans, St. Louis, and Detroit survived the transition…

  • American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State

    Jay Gitlin, Stephen AronARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2007

    Journal Article American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State Get access American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State. By Aron Stephen. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xxi + 301 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.) Jay Gitlin Jay Gitlin Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue…

  • Private Diplomacy to Private Property: States, Tribes, and Nations in the Early National Period

    Jay GitlinARTICLEDiplomatic History1998

    Journal Article Private Diplomacy to Private Property: States, Tribes, and Nations in the Early National Period Get access Jay Gitlin Jay Gitlin Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 22, Issue 1, January 1998, Pages 85–99, https://doi.org/10.1111/0145-2096.00103 Published: 17 December 2002

  • A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America

    Jay Gitlin, Victor Greene et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article A Passion for Polka: Old-Time Ethnic Music in America. By Victor Greene. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xii, 355 pp. $28.00, ISBN 0-520-07584-6.) and Polka Happiness. By Charles Keil and Angeliki V. Keil. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. xii, 221 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-87722-819-1.) Get access Jay Gitlin Jay Gitlin Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…

  • The "New Western History" Comes of Age

    Donald J Pisani, William Cronon et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1993

    This excellent set of essays honors Howard R. Lamar, who is retiring after more than four decades of teaching the history of the American West at Yale University. Of the fifty-seven Ph.D. students he has directed or is directing, twelve contributed to this festschrift. Their articles-like the work of the man they celebrate-exhibit bold perspectives, challenging ideas, interdisciplinary research, and freedom from cant and hyperbole. The collection…

  • Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past

    R F Berkhofer, William Cronon et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993Cited by: 9

    Journal Article Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past. Ed. by William Cronon, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin. (New York: Norton, 1992. xiv + 354 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-39302993-X.) Get access Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. University of California, Santa Cruz, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 228–229, ht…

  • With an Air Debonair: Musical Theatre in America, 1785-1815

    Jay Gitlin, Susan L PorterARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article With an Air Debonair: Musical Theatre in America, 1785–1815. By Susan L. Porter. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. xiv + 631 pp. $55.00, ISBN 1-56098-063-X.) Get access Jay Gitlin Jay Gitlin Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1591–1592, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080247 Published: 01 March 1993

  • Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783

    Jay Gitlin, Daniel H UsnerARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1993

    Journal Article Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783 Get access Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783. By Usner Daniel H.Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xvii + 294 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $32.50, cloth; $12.95, paper.) Jay Gitlin Jay Gitlin Yale University Search for …

  • Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past

    Lewis L Gould, William Cronon et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1992

  • The Way to Tin Pan Alley: American Popular Song, 1866-1910

    Jay Gitlin, Nicholas E TawaARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article The Way to Tin Pan Alley: American Popular Song, 1866–1910. By Nicholas E. Tawa. (New York: Schirmer, 1990. xiv + 296 pp. $29.95.) Get access Jay Gitlin Jay Gitlin Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 343–344, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078180 Published: 01 June 1991

  • Discoursing Sweet Music: Town Bands and Community Life in Turn-of-the-Century Pennsylvania

    Jay Gitlin, Kenneth KreitnerARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article Discoursing Sweet Music: Town Bands and Community Life in Turn-of-the-Century Pennsylvania. By Kenneth Kreitner. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. xvi + 205 pp. $22.50.) Get access Jay Gitlin Jay Gitlin Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1386, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078347 Published: 01 March 1991

  • Bourgmont: Explorer of the Missouri, 1698-1725

    Jay Gitlin, Frank NorallARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1990

    Journal Article Bourgmont: Explorer of the Missouri, 1698–1725 Get access Bourgmont: Explorer of the Missouri, 1698–1725. By Norall Frank. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. ix + 192 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $18.95.) Jay Gitlin Jay Gitlin Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 2, May 1990, Page 225, h…

  • The Metis in the Canadian West. Volume 1

    Jay Gitlin, Marcel Giraud et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1988

    Journal Article The Métis in the Canadian West. Volume 1 and The Métis in the Canadian West. Volume 2 Get access The Métis in the Canadian West. Volume 1. By Giraud Marcel. Translated by George Woodcock. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. xxi + 631 pp. Notes. $50.00 the set.)The Métis in the Canadian West. Volume 2. By Giraud Marcel. Translated by George Woodcock. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. 729 pp. Illustrations, map…

  • Women and the West: Rethinking the Western History Survey Course

    William Cronon, Howard R Lamar et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1986

    William Cronon, Howard R. Lamar, Katherine G. Morrissey, Ph.D., Jay Gitlin, Ph.D.; Women and the West: Rethinking the Western History Survey Course, Wester