Charity, Philanthropy and Reform: From the 1690s to 1850

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-14
State, Church and Voluntarism in European Welfare, 1690–1850....Pages 15-65
Head versus Heart? Voluntary Associations and Charity Organization in England, c.1700–1850....Pages 66-86
‘To the Charitable and Humane’: Appeals for Assistance in the Eighteenth-Century London Press....Pages 87-107
Charity as Boundary Making: Social Stratification, Gender and the Family in the Italian States (Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries)....Pages 108-129
Transforming the Nation and the Child: Philanthropy in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and England, c.1780–c.1850....Pages 130-147
Religion, Philanthropy and the State in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland....Pages 148-167
‘La Charité est une Mère’: Catholic Women and Poor Relief in France, 1690–1850....Pages 168-192
English Rational Dissent and Philanthropy, c.1760–c.1810....Pages 193-207
The Evolution of a Transatlantic Debate on Penal Reform, 1780–1830....Pages 208-227
The Anglo-American Unitarian Connection and Urban Poverty....Pages 228-242
Back Matter....Pages 243-262