Author: Publisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Author: Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service
Author: Public Affairs Information ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Report
Author: Chicago Recreation CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Corporate Giving Directory
Author: Chicago Community Resources and Problems
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Chicago Metropolitan Area (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Accession List
Author: United States. Social Security Board. LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942
Author: Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
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Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Civic Gifts
Author: Elisabeth S. ClemensPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022667083X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
In Civic Gifts, Elisabeth S. Clemens takes a singular approach to probing the puzzle that is the United States. How, she asks, did a powerful state develop within an anti-statist political culture? How did a sense of shared nationhood develop despite the linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences among settlers and, eventually, citizens? Clemens reveals that an important piece of the answer to these questions can be found in the unexpected political uses of benevolence and philanthropy, practices of gift-giving and reciprocity that coexisted uneasily with the self-sufficient independence expected of liberal citizens Civic Gifts focuses on the power of gifts not only to mobilize communities throughout US history, but also to create new forms of solidarity among strangers. Clemens makes clear how, from the early Republic through the Second World War, reciprocity was an important tool for eliciting both the commitments and the capacities needed to face natural disasters, economic crises, and unprecedented national challenges. Encompassing a range of endeavors from the mobilized voluntarism of the Civil War, through Community Chests and the Red Cross to the FDR-driven rise of the March of Dimes, Clemens shows how voluntary efforts were repeatedly articulated with government projects. The legacy of these efforts is a state co-constituted with, as much as constrained by, civil society.