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Book SynopsisThis important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in this country and abroad, to balance the efforts of private charity and public welfare.
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Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Charity and Poor Relief in Early Modern Europe Chapter 3 Poor Relief and Community in the Early Dutch Republic Chapter 4 Religious Charity and Cultural Norms in Counter-Reformation France Chapter 5 The Provision of Work as Assistance and Correction in France/ 1534-1848 Chapter 6 Good Government and Christian Charity in Early Modern Italy Chapter 7 Private Charity and the 1834 Poor Law Part 8 PArt II. United States Relief and Welfare in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Chapter 9 Orphanages vs. Adoption: The Triumph of Biological Kinship/ 1800-1933 Chapter 10 Claiming the Poor Chapter 11 Herbert Hoover, Associationalism, and the Great Depression Relief Crisis of 1930-1933 Chapter 12 Neither Charity Nor Relief: The War on Poverty and the Effort to Redefine the Basis of Social Provision Chapter 13 Implementing Family Planning Policy: Philanthropic Foundations and the Modern Welfare State Chapter 14 "Reforming" Relief and Welfare: Thoughts on 1834 and 1996 Chapter 15 Index
