Giving: Charity and Philanthropy in History

ISBN-13: 9781138524378 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 250 str.

Robert H. Bremner

Opis

The word 'philanthropy' has been translated in a variety of ways: as a loving human disposition, loving kindness, love of mankind, charity, fostering mortal man, championing mankind, and helping people. Bremner's book covers all of these meanings in rich detail.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments, Introduction, Part One The Ancient World, Part Two Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, Part Three The Eighteenth Century, Part Four The Nineteenth Century, Part Five 1890s to the Present, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Robert H. Bremner