Description
Book SynopsisTalks about the modern development of philanthropy in a transatlantic context. The comparative method of these essays help to describe the important civic and cultural role played by philanthropy, and show the extent to which civic institutions were dependent on private support.
Trade Review. . . I recommend it to anyone wondering about the validity of fundraising, as it positions philanthropy at the heart of many of the most exciting and important changes within society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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. . . view[ing] philanthropy not as an American but a European or even German invention . . . is one of the major insights . . .
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Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction Thomas Adam
Part I. Philanthropy in a Transatlantic World
1.Philanthropy and the Shaping of Social Distinctions in nineteenth-century American, Canadian and German cities, Thomas Adam
2. "The Glue of Civil Society" - A Comparative Approach to Art-Museum Philanthropy at the turn of the Century, Karsten Borgmann
3. Self-Help and Philanthropy: the Emergence of Co-operatives in Britain, Germany, the U.S.A., and Canada from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth Century, Brett Fairbairn
4. Patronage and the Great Institutions of the Cities of the United States: Questions and Evidence, 1800-2000, David C. Hammack
Part II. Between Market and State: Philanthropy and Social Elites
5. Philanthropy and Science in Wilhelmine Germany, Eckhardt Fuchs/Dieter Hoffmann
6.The serious matter of true joy: music and cultural philanthropy in Leipzig, 1781-1933, Margaret Eleanor Menninger
7. Changing Perceptions of Philanthropy in the Voluntary Housing Field in nineteenth and early twentieth century London, Susannah Morris
Part III. Jewish philanthropy and Embourgeoisment
8. Rabbinic Study, Self-Improvement, and Philanthropy: Gender and the Re-Fashioning of Jewish Voluntary Associations in Germany, 1750-1870, Maria Benjamin Baader
Appendix One
9. Ethnic Difference and Civic Unity: A German-American Comparison of Jewish Communal Philanthropy in the Nineteenth Century City, Tobias Brinkmann
10. Bürgerlichkeit, Patronage and Communal Liberalism in Germany before World War One, Simone Lässig
Contributors
Index
Contributors: Contributor bios to come
