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

by Thomas Adam, Dwight F. Burlingame, David C. Hammack

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253343135
• ISBN13: 9780253343130
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"