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Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine
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by J. Matthew Gallman

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Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were already wrestling with a complex array of urban problems. In this innovative work of comparative urban history, Matthew Gallman looks at how two cities, Philadelphia and Liverpool, met the challenges raised by the influx of immigrants.

Gallman examines how citizens and policymakers in Philadelphia and Liverpool dealt with such issues as poverty, disease, poor sanitation, crime, sectarian conflict, and juvenile delinquency. By considering how two cities of comparable population and dimensions responded to similar challenges, he sheds new light on familiar questions about distinctive national characteristics -- without resorting to claims of "American exceptionalism." In this critical era of urban development, English and American cities often evolved in analogous ways, Gallman notes. But certain crucial differences -- in location, material conditions, governmental structures, and voluntaristic traditions, for example -- inspired varying approaches to urban problem solving on either side of the Atlantic.

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This work of comparative history looks at how two rapidly growing cities, Philadelphia and Liverpool, coped with the urban challenges raised by the influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century.

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  • Title Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855
  • Author J. Matthew Gallman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Publication date 2000-05-29
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780807848456 / 080784845X
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.16 x 0.77 in (23.57 x 15.65 x 1.96 cm)
  • Reading level 1170
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Ireland
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: Irish
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Ireland - History - Famine, 1845-1852, Ireland - Emigration and immigration -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99042768
  • Dewey Decimal Code 942.753

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  • Choice, 11/01/2000, Page 585

About the author

J. Matthew Gallman is Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. His books include Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War.

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