Author: Ayer Company Publishers, IncorporatedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Charitable Impulse in Eighteenth Century America
Author: Ayer Company Publishers, IncorporatedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Charitable impulse in eighteenth century collected papers
Author: American Philanthropy
Author: Robert H. BremnerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226073254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In this revised and enlarged edition of his classic work, Robert H. Bremner provides a social history of American philanthropy from colonial times to the present, showing the ways in which Americans have sought to do good in such fields as religion, education, humanitarian reform, social service, war relief, and foreign aid. Three new chapters have been added that concisely cover the course of philanthropy and voluntarism in the United States over the past twenty-five years, a period in which total giving by individuals, foundations, and corporations has more than doubled in real terms and in which major revisions of tax laws have changed patterns of giving. This new edition also includes an updated chronology of important dates, and a completely revised bibliographic essay to guide readers on literature in the field. "[This] book, as Bremner points out, is not encyclopedic. It is what he intended it to be, a pleasant narrative, seasoned with humorous comments, briefly but interestingly treating its principal persons and subjects. It should serve teacher and student as a springboard for further study of individuals, institutions and movements."—Karl De Schweinitz, American Historical Review "[American Philanthropy] is the starting point for both casual readers and academic scholars. . . . a readable book, important beyond its diminutive size."—Richard Magat, Foundation News
American Book Publishing Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1510
Book Description
Welfare Reform in the Early Republic
Author: Seth RockmanPublisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478622628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
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Contextualizing Homelessness
Author: Kenneth KylePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135870322
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This project employs three different disciplinary approaches--social constructionism, policy analysis, and rhetorical analysis--as a first step toward a critical theory of homelessness.
NTSU Books
Author: Children Bound to Labor
Author: Ruth Wallis HerndonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801457521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfree persons usually inherited their parents' status. Immigrant indentured servants, many of whom were young people, are widely recognized as part of early American society. Less familiar is the idea of free children being taken from the homes where they were born and put into bondage. As Children Bound to Labor makes clear, pauper apprenticeship was an important source of labor in early America. The economic, social, and political development of the colonies and then the states cannot be told properly without taking them into account. Binding out pauper apprentices was a widespread practice throughout the colonies from Massachusetts to South Carolina-poor, illegitimate, orphaned, abandoned, or abused children were raised to adulthood in a legal condition of indentured servitude. Most of these children were without resources and often without advocates. Local officials undertook the responsibility for putting such children in family situations where the child was expected to work, while the master provided education and basic living needs. The authors of Children Bound to Labor show the various ways in which pauper apprentices were important to the economic, social, and political structure of early America, and how the practice shaped such key relations as master-servant, parent-child, and family-state in the young republic. In considering the practice in English, Dutch, and French communities in North America from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, Children Bound to Labor even suggests that this widespread practice was notable as a positive means of maintaining social stability and encouraging economic development.
Cloak of Charity
Author: Betsy RodgersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Eighteenth Century
Author: American Society for Eighteenth-Century StudiesPublisher: AMS Press
ISBN: 9780404622305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
This 17th volume from the series of bibliographies of the 18th century is divided into sections on: printing and bibliographic studies; historical, social and economic studies; philosophy, science and religion; the fine arts; literary studies; and individual authors.