1,054
Views
8
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Immigrants and savers: A rich new database on the Irish in 1850s New York

, &

References

  • Alter, G., C. Goldin, and E. Rotella. 1994. The savings of ordinary Americans: The Philadelphia saving fund society in the mid-nineteenth century. Journal of Economic History 54:735–67.
  • Anbinder, T. 2008. Saving grace: The emigrant savings bank and its depositors. In Catholics in New York: Society, culture, and politics, 1808–1946, ed. T. Golway, 83–94. New York, NY: Fordham University Press.
  • Anbinder, T. 2012. Moving beyond ‘Rags to Riches’: New York's Irish famine immigrants and their surprising savings accounts. Journal of American History 99:741–70.
  • Anbinder, T. 2016. City of dreams: The 400-year epic history of immigrant New York. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  • Anbinder, T., and H. McCaffrey. 2015. Which Irish men and women immigrated to the United States during the great famine migration of 1846–54? Irish Historical Studies 39:620–42.
  • Carothers, A., and M. R. Casey. 2014. From Killybegs to Mulberry Street. http://www.nyuirish.net/ethnicvillage/mulberry-street/donegal_in_new_york/from-killybegs-to-mulberry-street/ (accessed April 8, 2017).
  • Casey, M. R. 2006. Refractive history: Memory and the founders of the emigrants savings bank. In Making the Irish American: History and heritage of the Irish, ed. J. J. Lee and M. Casey, 302–31. New York, NY: New York University Press.
  • Casey, M. R. 2013. Emigrant as historian: Records, banking, and Irish-American scholarship. American Journal of Irish Studies 10:145–63.
  • Clarke, J. F. 2014. Boarding House at 38 Mulberry Street. http://www.nyuirish.net/ethnicvillage/mulberry-street/38-mulberry-street/ (accessed April 8, 2017).
  • Cousens, S. H. 1965. The regional variation in emigration from Ireland between 1821 and 1841. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 37:15–30.
  • Ferrie, J. 1999. Yankeys now: Immigrants in the antebellum United States, 1840–1860. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Ferrie, J., and J. Long. 2013. Intergenerational occupational mobility in Britain and the U.S. since 1850. American Economic Review 103:1109–37.
  • Fishlow, A. 1961. The trustee savings banks, 1817–1861. Journal of Economic History 21:26–40.
  • 1861. General alphabetical index to the townlands and towns, parishes and baronies of Ireland. Dublin, Ireland: Alexander Thom.
  • Guinnane, T. 2002. Delegated monitors, large and small: Germany's banking system 1800–1914. Journal of Economic Literature 40:73–124.
  • Hatton, T. J., and J. G. Williamson. 1998. The age of mass migration. Causes and economic impact. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Hurst, E., A. Lusardi, A. Kennickell, and F. Torralba. 2010. The importance of business owners in assessing the size of precautionary savings. Review of Economics and Statistics 92:61–69.
  • Kelly, M., and C. Ó Gráda. 2000. Market contagion: Evidence from the panics of 1854 and 1857. The American Economic Review 90:1110–24.
  • Margo, Robert. 2000. Wages and labor markets in the United States, 1820–1860. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • McGuire, E. 2016. Estimating the impact of local conditions during the great depression on asset preferences in adulthood. Paper presented at the Economic History Association Meetings, September 16-18, 2017, Boulder, Colorado, USA. The author presented in Session #10 on Saturday, September 17, 2017. http://eh.net/eha/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/McGuire.pdf.
  • Mody, A., F. Ohnsorge, and D. Sandri. 2012. Precautionary savings in the great recession. IMF Economic Review 60:114–38.
  • Ó Gráda, C. 1999. Black '47 and beyond: The great Irish famine in history, economy and memory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Ó Gráda, C. 2001. The famine, the New York Irish, and their bank. In Contributions to the history of economic thought, essays in honor of R.D.C. Black, ed. A. E. Murphy and R. Prendergast, 227–48. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Ó Gráda, C. 2003. Savings banks as an institutional import: The case of nineteenth century Ireland. Financial History Review 10:31–55.
  • Ó Gráda, C. 2009. Financial panic, famine and contagion: Ireland in the 1840s and 1850s. Irish Economic and Social History 35:21–36.
  • Ó Gráda, C., and E. White. 2003. The panics of 1854 and 1857: A view from the emigrants industrial savings bank. Journal of Economic History 63:213–40.
  • Olmstead, A. L. 1976. New York City mutual savings banks, 1819–1861. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
  • Padian, P. F. 2016. From Lissonuffy to New York. http://www.nyuirish.net/ethnicvillage/from-lissonuffy-to-new-york/ (accessed April 8, 2017).
  • Payne, P. L., and L. E. Davis. 1956. The savings bank of Baltimore, 1818–1866: A historical and analytical study. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press.
  • Rich, K. J. 2001–2010. Irish immigrants of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, vols. 1–3. New York, NY: Author.
  • Shiels, D. 2015. As good a chance to escape as any other: A Cork soldier's aid to his family in Ireland, 1864. Irish in the American Civil War. https://irishamericancivilwar.com/2015/03/27/as-good-a-chance-to-escape-as-any-other-a-cork-soldiers-aid-to-his-family-in-ireland-1864/].
  • Thernstrom, S. 1964. Poverty and progress. Social mobility in a nineteenth century city. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.