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Philanthropy, patronage, and civil society : experiences from Germany, Great Britain, and North America /
In this book, Thomas Adam has assembled a comparative set of case studies that challenge long-held and little-studied assumptions about the modern development of philanthropy. The comparative method of the essays reveal the extent to which the wealthy classes on both sides of the Atlantic defined th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Philanthropic and nonprofit studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Philanthropy and the shaping of social distinctions in nineteenth-century U.S., Canadian, and German cities / Thomas Adam
- "The glue of civil society" : a comparative approach to art museum philanthropy at the turn of the twentieth century / Karsten Borgmann
- Self-help and philanthropy : the emergence of cooperatives in Britain, Germany, the United States, and Canada from mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century / Brett Fairbairn
- Patronage and the great institutions of the cities of the United States : questions and evidence, 1800-2000 / David C. Hammack
- Philanthropy and science in Wilhelmine Germany / Eckhardt Fuchs and Dieter Hoffmann
- The serious matter of true joy : music and cultural philanthropy in Leipzig, 1781-1933 / Margaret Eleanor Menninger
- Changing perceptions of philanthropy in the voluntary housing field in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century London / Susannah Morris
- Rabbinic study, self-improvement, and philanthropy : gender and the refashioning of Jewish voluntary associations in Germany, 1750-1870 / Maria Benjamin Baader
- Ethnic difference and civic unity : a comparison of Jewish communal philanthropy in nineteenth-century German and U.S. cities / Tobias Brinkmann
- Bürgerlichkeit, patronage, and communal liberalism in Germany, 1871-1914 / Simone Lässig.