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 civic traditions of philanthropy                  as in the United States. In truth, however, 19th-century German museums, art                  galleries, and social housing projects were not only privately founded and                  supported, they were also blueprints for the creation of similar public institutions                  in North America. The comparative method of the essays also reveals the extent to                  which the wealthy classes on both sides of the Atlantic defined themselves through                  their philanthropic activities.Contributors are Thomas Adam,                  Maria Benjamin Baader, Karsten Borgmann, Tobias Brinkmann, Brett Fairbairn, Eckhardt                  Fuchs, David C. Hammack, Dieter Hoffmann, Simone Lässig, Margaret Eleanor Menninger,                  and Susannah Morris.

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