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Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850-1920 /
From the mid-19th century until the rise of the modern welfare state in the early 20th century, Anglo-American philanthropic giving gained an unprecedented measure of cultural authority as it changed in kind and degree. Civil society took on the responsibility for confronting the adverse effects of...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | From the mid-19th century until the rise of the modern welfare state in the early 20th century, Anglo-American philanthropic giving gained an unprecedented measure of cultural authority as it changed in kind and degree. Civil society took on the responsibility for confronting the adverse effects of industrialism, and transnational discussions of poverty, urbanization, women's work, and sympathy provided a means of understanding and debating social reform. While philanthropic institutions left a transactional record of money and materials, philanthropic discourse yielded a rich corpus of writin. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (266 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780253029881 |