03772nam 22006494a 450 991078335840332120230617021856.01-282-07144-097866120714470-253-11086-6(CKB)1000000000030363(EBL)239660(OCoLC)475951134(SSID)ssj0000220794(PQKBManifestationID)11191431(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000220794(PQKBWorkID)10156715(PQKB)11034676(MiAaPQ)EBC239660(OCoLC)62096957(MdBmJHUP)muse16634(Au-PeEL)EBL239660(CaPaEBR)ebr10090715(CaONFJC)MIL207144(EXLCZ)99100000000003036320030606d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPhilanthropy, patronage, and civil society[electronic resource] experiences from Germany, Great Britain, and North America /edited by Thomas AdamBloomington Indiana University Pressc20041 online resource (241 p.)Philanthropic and nonprofit studiesReworked papers of a conference held at the University of Toronto, May 2001.Includes index.0-253-34313-5 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 Germany6. 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; IndexIn 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. InPhilanthropic and nonprofit studies.CharitiesGermanyHistoryCongressesCharitiesGreat BritainHistoryCongressesCharitiesNorth AmericaHistoryCongressesCharitiesHistoryCharitiesHistoryCharitiesHistory361.7/4Adam Thomas1968-903259MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783358403321Philanthropy, patronage, and civil society3699391UNINA