American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad: New Directions in the History of Giving

ISBN-13: 9781350151956 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

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List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Religion and Philanthropy Heaping Coals of Fire on the Enemy’s Head: the Political Uses of Christian Benevolence in the Civil War Rachel Williams “Ministry of Helpfulness”: Near East Relief and Protestant Philanthropic Secularism, 1915-1930 Scott P. Libson Philanthropy as Exchange: American Missionaries and the International Religious Liberty Debate Emma Long Part II: Cultural Networks Nineteenth-Century Abolition and the Unquiet Library: Transatlantic Print Culture and the Making of the “Celebrated Philanthropist”, Anthony Benezet Bridget Bennett Towards a Cultural Counter-Establishment: Huntington Hartford and his Eponymous Foundation, 1948-1965 Karen Patricia Heath The Ford Foundation’s Cultural Cold War in Berlin Amanda Niedfeldt Part III: Diplomacy and International Development Women’s Educational Philanthropy and Civil-Society Diplomacy: Opposing US Legislation Prohibiting Japanese Immigration While Fundraising for a Tokyo Women’s College, 1900-1929 Linda L. Johnson Cultivating “Good Will” Through Rural Welfare: The Near East Foundation in Iran, 1943-1951 Ben Offiler From Books to Land Rovers: The Informal, Small Philanthropy of the AFL-CIO and the ICFTU in Africa During the Early Cold War Kevin E. Grimm Part IV: Challenging Philanthropy Identifying a Menace to the National Welfare: The Final Report of the United States Commission on Industrial Relation and the Progressive Era Critique of Philanthropic Foundations Margaret Nettesheim Hoffmann Klanishness and American Fraternalism: Examining Charity and Philanthropy in the Second Ku Klux Klan Miguel Hernandez Bibliography Index