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.
Author(s): Thomas Adam
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 240
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1. Philanthropy and the Shaping of Social Distinctionsin Nineteenth-Century U.S., Canadian, and German Cities......Page 28
2. “The Glue of Civil Society”: A Comparative Approach to Art MuseumPhilanthropy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century......Page 47
3. Self-Help and Philanthropy: The Emergence of Cooperativesin Britain, Germany, the United States, and Canadafrom Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century......Page 68
4. Patronage and the Great Institutions of the Cities of the United States:Questions and Evidence, 1800–2000......Page 92
5. Philanthropy and Science in Wilhelmine Germany......Page 116
6. The Serious Matter of True Joy: Musicand Cultural Philanthropy in Leipzig, 1781–1933......Page 133
7. Changing Perceptions of Philanthropy in the Voluntary Housing Fieldin Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century London......Page 151
8. Rabbinic Study, Self-Improvement, and Philanthropy:Gender and the Refashioning of Jewish Voluntary Associationsin Germany, 1750–1870......Page 176
9. Ethnic Difference and Civic Unity:A Comparison of Jewish Communal Philanthropyin Nineteenth-Century German and U.S. Cities......Page 192
10. Bürgerlichkeit, Patronage, and Communal Liberalismin Germany, 1871–1914......Page 211
Contributors......Page 232
Index......Page 235
