Opis: Philanthropy Patronage - Adam WAJLORD Wojtowicz

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. Generally limited to a post-1930s American context, histories of philanthropy have often neglected European patterns of giving and the importance of financial patronage in the nineteenth century. It has long been assumed, for example, that Germany never developed civic traditions of philanthropy as in the United States, but German patronage and philanthropy in the nineteenth century reveal a once active culture of giving. Nineteenth-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 helps to reveal the important civic and cultural role played by philanthropy, demonstrating for example, the place of philanthropy in the development of middle-class Jewish culture and identity in Germany and North America. The essays show the extent to which civic institutions were dependent on private support, and, perhaps even more importantly, how the wealthy classes defined themselves through their philanthropic activities. By observing the giving activities of each other, newly rich Germans and North Americans developed a sense of class entitlement and identity that transcended national boundaries. Students and scholars of philanthropy, class and group identity, and transatlantic cultural relationships should welcome the new research presented in this volume.

.".. view[ing] philanthropy not as an American but a European or evenGerman invention... is one of the major insights..." -- H-GermanIntroductionThomas 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. Burgerlichkeit, Patronage and Communal Liberalism in Germany before World War One, Simone LassigContributorsIndex

Szczegóły: Philanthropy Patronage - Adam WAJLORD Wojtowicz

Tytuł: Philanthropy Patronage
Autor: Adam WAJLORD Wojtowicz
Producent: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253343130
Rok produkcji: 2004
Ilość stron: 232
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.51 kg

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