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Plentiful Country : The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York by Tyler Anbinder (2024, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-10031656480X
ISBN-139780316564809
eBay Product ID (ePID)15061843688
Product Key Features
Book TitlePlentiful Country : the Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 19th Century, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Europe / Ireland
Publication Year2024
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorTyler Anbinder
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.6 in
Item Weight27.3 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2023-949229
Reviews"[A] brilliant book... Drawing on new archival sources, Anbinder gives voice to a generation's struggle to escape from destitution and despair and its remarkable success in achieving dignity and stability."-- Fintan O'Toole, The Irish Times, "On a recent visit to Ireland, I saw one of the docks where, it was said, desperate, starving women once held up their children, beseeching strangers to take them to a new life in America. In Tyler Anbinder's moving, expertly told narrative, I learned what happened to that generation of immigrants and their descendants. This is a hugely important and too little-known part of the American story."-- Adam Hochschild, New York Times bestselling author of Spain in Our Hearts and American Midnight
Dewey Edition23/eng/20240318
Dewey Decimal974.7/10049162009034
SynopsisFrom the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams , "a superb revisionist history" of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, using their "riveting and deeply personal stories" in and beyond New York exemplify the astonishing tenacity and improbable triumph of Irish America ( Wall Street Journal ). In 1845, a fungus began to destroy Ireland's potato crop, triggering a famine that would kill one million Irish men, women, and children--and drive over one million more to flee for America. Ten years later, the United States had been transformed by this stupendous migration, nowhere more than New York: by 1855, roughly a third of all adults living in Manhattan were immigrants who had escaped the hunger in Ireland. These so-called "Famine Irish" were the forebears of four U.S. presidents (including Joe Biden) yet when they arrived in America they were consigned to the lowest-paying jobs and subjected to discrimination and ridicule by their new countrymen. Even today, the popular perception of these immigrants is one of destitution and despair. But when we let the Famine Irish narrate their own stories, they paint a far different picture. In this magisterial work of storytelling and scholarship, acclaimed historian Tyler Anbinder presents for the first time the Famine generation's individual and collective tales of struggle, perseverance, and triumph. Drawing on newly available records and a ten-year research initiative, Anbinder reclaims the narratives of the refugees who settled in New York City and helped reshape the entire nation. Plentiful Country is a tour de force--a book that rescues the Famine immigrants from the margins of history and restores them to their rightful place at the center of the American story.
LC Classification NumberF128.9.I6A53 2024
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