Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society

Experiences from Germany, Great Britain, and North America

AvThomas Adam

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

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 truth, however, 19th-century German museums, art galleries, and social housing projects were not only privately founded and supported, they were also blueprints for the creation of similar public institutions in North America. The comparative method of the essays also reveals the extent to which the wealthy classes on both sides of the Atlantic defined themselves through their philanthropic activities.Contributors are Thomas Adam, Maria Benjamin Baader, Karsten Borgmann, Tobias Brinkmann, Brett Fairbairn, Eckhardt Fuchs, David C. Hammack, Dieter Hoffmann, Simone Lässig, Margaret Eleanor Menninger, and Susannah Morris.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-02-12
Mått:156 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253343130

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi och antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Thomas Adam is Assistant Professor of German and Transatlantic European History at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Recensioner i media

". . . 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."—Philanthropy UK Newsletter". . . view[ing] philanthropy not as an American but a European or even German invention . . . is one of the major insights . . ."—H-German

Innehållsförteckning

Preliminary Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Thomas AdamPart I. Philanthropy in a Transatlantic World1.Philanthropy and the Shaping of Social Distinctions in nineteenth-century American, Canadian and German cities, Thomas Adam2. "The Glue of Civil Society" - A Comparative Approach to Art-Museum Philanthropy at the turn of the Century, Karsten Borgmann3. 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 Fairbairn4. Patronage and the Great Institutions of the Cities of the United States: Questions and Evidence, 1800-2000, David C. HammackPart II. Between Market and State: Philanthropy and Social Elites5. Philanthropy and Science in Wilhelmine Germany, Eckhardt Fuchs/Dieter Hoffmann6.The serious matter of true joy: music and cultural philanthropy in Leipzig, 1781-1933, Margaret Eleanor Menninger7. Changing Perceptions of Philanthropy in the Voluntary Housing Field in nineteenth and early twentieth century London, Susannah MorrisPart III. Jewish philanthropy and Embourgeoisment8. Rabbinic Study, Self-Improvement, and Philanthropy: Gender and the Re-Fashioning of Jewish Voluntary Associations in Germany, 1750-1870, Maria Benjamin Baader Appendix One9. Ethnic Difference and Civic Unity: A German-American Comparison of Jewish Communal Philanthropy in the Nineteenth Century City, Tobias Brinkmann10. Bürgerlichkeit, Patronage and Communal Liberalism in Germany before World War One, Simone LässigContributorsIndexContributors: Contributor bios to come