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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813842803321

Titolo

Philanthropy, patronage, and civil society : experiences from Germany, Great Britain, and North America / / edited by Thomas Adam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-282-07144-0

9786612071447

0-253-11086-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Philanthropic and nonprofit studies

Altri autori (Persone)

AdamThomas <1968->

Disciplina

361.7/4

Soggetti

Charities - Germany - History

Charities - Great Britain - History

Charities - North America - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reworked papers of a conference held at the University of Toronto, May 2001.

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Philanthropy and the Shaping of Social Distinctionsin Nineteenth-Century U.S., Canadian, and German Cities; 2. "The Glue of Civil Society": A Comparative Approach to Art MuseumPhilanthropy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; 3. Self-Help and Philanthropy: The Emergence of Cooperativesin Britain, Germany, the United States, and Canadafrom Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century; 4. Patronage and the Great Institutions of the Cities of the United States:Questions and Evidence, 1800-2000; 5. Philanthropy and Science in Wilhelmine Germany

6. The Serious Matter of True Joy: Musicand Cultural Philanthropy in Leipzig, 1781-19337. Changing Perceptions of Philanthropy in the Voluntary Housing Fieldin Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century London; 8. Rabbinic Study, Self-Improvement, and Philanthropy:Gender and the Refashioning of Jewish Voluntary Associationsin Germany, 1750-1870; 9. Ethnic Difference and Civic Unity:A Comparison of Jewish Communal Philanthropyin Nineteenth-Century German and U.S. Cities; 10. Bürgerlichkeit, Patronage, and Communal Liberalismin



Germany, 1871-1914; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society, Thomas Adam has assembled                a comparative set of case studies that challenge long-held and little-studied                assumptions about the modern development of philanthropy. Histories of philanthropy                have often neglected European patterns of giving and the importance of financial                patronage to the emergence of modern industrialized societies. It has long been                assumed, for example, that Germany never developed civic traditions of philanthropy                as in the United States. In