Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society: Experiences from Germany, Great Britain, and North America

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Preliminary Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Thomas Adam Part I. Philanthropy in a Transatlantic World 1.Philanthropy and the Shaping of Social Distinctions in nineteenth-century American, Canadian and German cities, Thomas Adam 2. The Glue of Civil Society - A Comparative Approach to Art-Museum Philanthropy at the turn of the Century, Karsten Borgmann 3. 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 Fairbairn 4. Patronage and the Great Institutions of the Cities of the United States: Questions and Evidence, 1800-2000, David C. Hammack Part II. Between Market and State: Philanthropy and Social Elites 5. Philanthropy and Science in Wilhelmine Germany, Eckhardt Fuchs/Dieter Hoffmann 6.The serious matter of true joy: music and cultural philanthropy in Leipzig, 1781-1933, Margaret Eleanor Menninger 7. Changing Perceptions of Philanthropy in the Voluntary Housing Field in nineteenth and early twentieth century London, Susannah Morris Part III. Jewish philanthropy and Embourgeoisment 8. Rabbinic Study, Self-Improvement, and Philanthropy: Gender and the Re-Fashioning of Jewish Voluntary Associations in Germany, 1750-1870, Maria Benjamin Baader Appendix One 9. Ethnic Difference and Civic Unity: A German-American Comparison of Jewish Communal Philanthropy in the Nineteenth Century City, Tobias Brinkmann 10. Burgerlichkeit, Patronage and Communal Liberalism in Germany before World War One, Simone Lassig Contributors Index Contributors: Contributor bios to come