Philanthropy, patronage, and civil society : experiences from Germany, Great Britain, and North America / edited by Thomas Adam.

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2004], ©2004.

x, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Reworked papers of a conference held at the University of Toronto, May 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Philanthropy and the shaping of social distinctions in nineteenth-century U.S., Canadian, and German cities / Thomas Adam -- "The glue of civil society" : a comparative approach to art museum philanthropy at the turn of the twentieth century / Karsten Borgmann -- 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 -- Patronage and the great institutions of the cities of the United States : questions and evidence, 1800-2000 / David C. Hammack -- Philanthropy and science in Wilhelmine Germany / Eckhardt Fuchs and Dieter Hoffmann -- Serious matter of true joy : music and cultural philanthropy in Leipzig, 1781-1933 / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Changing perceptions of philanthropy in the voluntary housing field in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century London / Susannah Morris -- Rabbinic study, self-improvement, and philanthropy : gender and the refashioning of Jewish voluntary associations in Germany, 1750-1870 / Maria Benjamin Baader -- Ethnic difference and civic unity : a comparison of Jewish communal philanthropy in nineteenth-century German and U.S. cities / Tobias Brinkmann -- Bürgerlichkeit, patronage, and communal liberalism in Germany, 1871-1914 / Simone Lässig.