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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam, Thomas, 1968-

Series:

Philanthropic and nonprofit studies.

Philanthropic and nonprofit studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charities--Germany--History--Congresses.

Charities.

Charities--Great Britain--History--Congresses.

Charities--North America--History--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-282-07144-0

9786612071447

0-253-11086-6

OCLC:

475951134