City of Dreams
- 768 Seiten
- 27 Lesestunden
By an acclaimed historian, a sweeping history of the peoples who have come to New York for four centuries: a defining American story of millions of immigrants, hundreds of languages, and one great city
Tyler Anbinder Bücher
Tyler Anbinder ist ein Autor, dessen Werk sich mit den komplexen Dynamiken der amerikanischen Geschichte befasst, insbesondere mit den komplizierten Beziehungen zwischen Nord- und Südstaaten der Vereinigten Staaten. Seine wissenschaftliche Arbeit untersucht die politischen und sozialen Strömungen, die die nationale Identität und den Kurs des Landes prägten. Anbinders literarischer Ansatz zeichnet sich durch eine tiefgründige Analyse historischer Ereignisse und ihrer gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen aus. Sein Schreibstil basiert auf sorgfältiger Recherche und fesselnder Erzählung.
All 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.
From the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, a breathtaking new history of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, showing how their strivings in and beyond New York exemplify the astonishing tenacity and improbable triumph of Irish America.