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Civic charity in a golden age : orphan care in early modern Amsterdam / Anne E.C. McCants.
LIBRA HV1210.A52 B86 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCants, Anne E. C. (Anne Elizabeth Conger), 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burgerweeshuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands)--History.
- Burgerweeshuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
- Orphanages--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--17th century.
- Orphanages.
- Orphanages--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--18th century.
- Poor--Services for--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History.
- Poor.
- Charities--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History.
- Charities.
- History.
- Poor--Services for.
- Netherlands--Amsterdam.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1997]
- Contents:
- Charitable behavior and the rise of capitalism
- Care for the middling
- Diet, well-being, and institutional mortality
- Becoming productive
- The politics of friends and money
- Fiscally conservative and culturally lavish
- The rise and decline of an institutional endowment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-271) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0252023331
- OCLC:
- 36041929
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