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Plentiful Country
Book • 2024
Tyler Anbinder's 'Plentiful Country' examines the Great Potato Famine and the generation of Irish immigrants who arrived in mid-19th-century New York.
Drawing on newly available sources like Immigrant Savings Bank records and digitized newspapers, Anbinder reconstructs individual life courses to show patterns of socioeconomic mobility and community formation.
The book challenges long-standing narratives that famine Irish remained permanently trapped at the bottom of American society, revealing varied trajectories including peddlers, skilled artisans, and prosperous saloon keepers.
It situates the Irish immigrant experience within broader debates about assimilation, nativism, and the making of the American dream.
The work blends archival sleuthing with quantitative and narrative history to revise our understanding of how immigrants reshaped urban America.
Drawing on newly available sources like Immigrant Savings Bank records and digitized newspapers, Anbinder reconstructs individual life courses to show patterns of socioeconomic mobility and community formation.
The book challenges long-standing narratives that famine Irish remained permanently trapped at the bottom of American society, revealing varied trajectories including peddlers, skilled artisans, and prosperous saloon keepers.
It situates the Irish immigrant experience within broader debates about assimilation, nativism, and the making of the American dream.
The work blends archival sleuthing with quantitative and narrative history to revise our understanding of how immigrants reshaped urban America.
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HTW Live: Busting the Myths of Irish Immigration — Recorded at the Tenement Museum
