{"title":"Tyler Anbinder","description":"Tyler Anbinder is an emeritus professor of history at George Washington University, where he taught courses on the history of American immigration and the American Civil War era. He is the author of three award-winning books and of numerous articles, and his publications have been honored with the Avery Craven Prize of the Organization of American Historians, the Mark Lynton History Prize of the Columbia School of Journalism, and the Hubbell Prize of the Society of Civil War Historians. Anbinder has also held the Fulbright Commission's Thomas Jefferson Distinguished Chair in American History at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and has won three prestigious research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.","products":[{"product_id":"five-points-the-19th-century-new-york-city-neighborhood-that-invented-tap-dance-stole-elections-and-became-the-worlds-most-notorious-slum-paperback","title":"Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAll but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. While it comprised only a handful of streets, many of America's most impoverished African Americans and Irish, Jewish, German, and Italian immigrants sweated out their existence there. Located in today's Chinatown, Five Points witnessed more riots, scams, prostitution, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in America. But at the same time it was a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters, dance halls, and boxing matches. It was also the home of meeting halls for the political clubs and the machine politicians who would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics.Drawing from letters, diaries, newspapers, bank records, police reports, and archaeological digs, Anbinder has written the first-ever history of Five Points, the neighborhood that was a microcosm of the American immigrant experience. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367069188319,"sku":"9781439141557","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/JSe4ptgDXY9781439141557.webp?v=1789102302"},{"product_id":"plentiful-country-the-great-potato-famine-and-the-making-of-irish-new-york-hardcover","title":"Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eFive Points\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCity of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, \"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 (\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003ePlentiful Country\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368297234655,"sku":"9780316564809","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lo32p-czTH9780316564809.webp?v=1789125217"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/tyler-anbinder.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}