American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-15195-6 (ISBN)
Using examples from the late eighteenth century to the Cold War, the collection addresses a number of major themes in the history of philanthropy in the United States. These examples include the role of religion, the significance of cultural networks, and the interplay between civil diplomacy and international development, as well as individual case studies that challenge the very notion of philanthropy as a social good.
Led by Ben Offiler and Rachel Williams, the authors demonstrate the benefits of embracing a broad definition of philanthropy, examining how American concepts including benevolence and charity have been used and interpreted by different groups and individuals in an effort to shape – and at least nominally to improve – people’s lives both within and beyond the United States.
Ben Offiler is Senior Lecturer in History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. His research focuses on the role played by philanthropic NGOs in US-Iranian relations and international development in the Middle East during the Cold War. His first monograph, US Foreign Policy and the Modernization of Iran: Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and the Shah, was published in 2015. Rachel Williams is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull, UK. Her research focuses on the social and religious history of the American Civil War, with a particular emphasis on the role of civilian non-combatants in the Union war effort.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.08.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 3 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-15195-5 / 1350151955 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-15195-6 / 9781350151956 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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