Charity, philanthropy, and reform : from the 1690s to 1850 / edited by Hugh Cunningham and Joanna Innes.

Other author Cunningham, Hugh.
Other author Innes, Joanna.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Descriptionxi, 262 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Subjects
Charities--History.
Social service--History.

Contents State, church and voluntarism in European welfare, 1690-1850 / Joanna Innes -- Head versus heart? Voluntary associations and charity organization in England c. 1700-1850 / Michael J.D. Roberts -- 'To the charitable and humane' : appeals for assistance in the eighteenth-century London press / Donna T. Andrew -- Charity as boundary making : social stratification, gender and the family in the Italian states (seventeenth-nineteenth centuries) / Sandra Cavallo -- Transforming the nation and the child : philanthropy in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and England, c.1780-c.1850 / Jeroen J.H. Dekker -- Religion, philanthropy and the state in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Ireland / Maria Luddy -- 'La charité est une mère' : Catholic women and poor relief in France, 1690-1850 / Hazel Mills -- English rational dissent and philanthropy, c.1760-c.1810 / G.M. Ditchfield -- The evolution of a transatlantic debate on penal reform, 1780-1830 / Katherine Lloyd and Cindy Burgoyne -- The Anglo-American unitarian connection and urban poverty / David Turley.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-255) and index.
LCCN 98010081
ISBN0312214359 (cloth)

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Joyner General Stacks HV16 .C55 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold