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Plentiful Country
Plentiful Country  / by Tyler Anbinder
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Plentiful Country
자료유형  
 양서단행본
ISBN  
9780316564809
DDC  
940-22
청구기호  
940 A537p
저자명  
Anbinder, Tyler
서명/저자  
Plentiful Country / by Tyler Anbinder
원서명  
[기타표제]The great potato famine and the making of Irish New York
발행사항  
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024
형태사항  
viii, 498p. ; 23 cm.
가격  
₩45310
Control Number  
bwcl:122696
책소개  
From 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.
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