German Philanthropy in Transatlantic Perspective

Perceptions, Exchanges and Transfers since the Early Twentieth Century

AvGregory R. Witkowski,Arnd Bauerkämper

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

It presents a differentiated understanding of the relationship between philanthropy and civil society that traces this connection from Germany’s first democracy, the Weimar Republic, through the Nazi dictatorship and Soviet-style rule in Communist East Germany to the stable democracy of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-07-06
Mått:155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt:406 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
Antal sidor:250
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319821986

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Innehållsförteckning

Introduction (Gregory Witkowski and Arnd Bauerkämper).- Philanthropy: Theory and Comparison.- Foundations in Germany and the United States: Comparative Observation (Stefan Toepler).- Philanthropic Giving: Reasons and Constellations (Frank Adloff).- German Philanthropy in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Dictatorship.- Philanthropy, Race, and Religion: The Gustav Adolf Association and National Socialism (Kevin Cramer).- Transnational Asymmetries. U.S. philanthropic foundations and the German School of Politics in the 1920s and 1930s (Peter Weber).- German Philanthropy in Transatlantic Perspective.- Reintegrating Germany into the Atlantic Community: The Role of the Big American Foundations(Volker Berghahn).- "America" as an Argument: References to U.S. Foundations in Debates about Scientific Funding in West-Germany from 1945 to the late 1960s (Arnd Bauerkämper).- Reinhold Schairer and the Revival of the German PhilanthropicTradition from Weimar to the Federal Republic (Malcolm Richardson).- Philanthropy in Divided Germany.- Charitable Giving between the State and the Market: West Germany from 1945 to the 1980s (Gabriele Lingelbach).- From Restructuring to Dissolution to Rebuilding? Foundations and Endowments in East Germany (Thomas Adam).- International and Transnational German Philanthropy.- "Germans against Germans in Africa" East German Philanthropic Aid in the Context of the Cold War (Gregory Witkowski).- The Biafra-Crisis and the Establishment of Humanitarian Aid in West Germany as a New Philanthropic Field (Florian Hannig).- Contemporary German MONGOs in Diani, Kenya: Two Approaches to Humanitarian Aid (Nina Berman).