Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society

by Adam, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780253343130
• ISBN10: 0253343135
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

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 Biography

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

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	ix
Introduction
THOMAS ADAM	1	(14)
Part 1. Philanthropy in a Transatlantic World
1. Philanthropy and the Shaping of Social Distinctions in Nineteenth-Century U.S., Canadian, and German Cities
THOMAS ADAM	15	(19)
2. "The Glue of Civil Society": A Comparative Approach to Art Museum Philanthropy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
KARSTEN BORGMANN	34	(21)
3. Self-Help and Philanthropy: The Emergence of Cooperatives in Britain, Germany, the United States, and Canada from Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century
BRETT FAIRBAIRN	55	(24)
4. Patronage and the Great Institutions of the Cities of the United States: Questions and Evidence, 1800-2000
DAVID C. HAMMACK	79	(24)
Part 2. Between Market and State: Philanthropy and Social Elites
5. Philanthropy and Science in Wilhelmine Germany
ECKHARDT FUCHS AND DIETER HOFFMANN	103	(17)
6. The Serious Matter of True Joy: Music and Cultural Philanthropy in Leipzig, 1781-1933
MARGARET ELEANOR MENNINGER	120	(18)
7. Changing Perceptions of Philanthropy in the Voluntary Housing Field in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century London
SUSANNAH MORRIS	138	(25)
Part 3. Jewish Philanthropy and Embourgeoisement
8. Rabbinic Study, Self-Improvement, and Philanthropy: Gender and the Refashioning of Jewish Voluntary Associations in Germany, 1750-1870
MARIA BENJAMIN BAADER	163	(16)
9. Ethnic Difference and Civic Unity: A Comparison of Jewish Communal Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century German and U.S. Cities
TOBIAS BRINKMANN	179	(19)
10. Burgerlichkeit, Patronage, and Communal Liberalism in Germany, 1871-1914
SIMONE LÄSSIG	198	(21)
CONTRIBUTORS	219	(3)
INDEX	222