American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad New Directions in the History of Giving
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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.
<p><i>American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad</i> makes an essential contribution to understanding the diversity and complexity of Americans’ giving. Exploring a broad range of efforts to shape public priorities through philanthropy, this volume offers a fascinating examination of Americans’ ideas about community, moral responsibility, politics, inequality, and much more.</p>
Amanda B. Moniz, David M. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, USA
<p>In this expertly compiled collection, Ben Offiler and Rachel Williams have brought together a range of leading scholars to provide a nuanced and thoughtful assessment of American philanthropy in its domestic and international contexts. With chapters focusing on the role of religious groups, cultural networks, and the state in promoting philanthropy, and two chapters examining groups who opposed its key concepts, the collection's contributors demonstrate the latest scholarship in this burgeoning field and raise important questions for anybody interested in the larger history of the United States' relationship with the concept of giving.</p>
Bevan Sewell, Associate Professor in American History, University of Nottingham, UK
This collection sheds light on the history of charity and philanthropy in the United States since the Civil War. It explores the ways in which charities, local associations, religious organisations and philanthropic foundations have engaged and interacted with American politics, society and relations with the world.
Beginning in the 19th-century, the first chapters address the domestic, religious and transatlantic dimensions of philanthropy during a period of conflict and upheaval. The second section showcase four domestic case studies, exploring debates about the purpose of 'good works', including charity in the Ku Klux Klan and philanthropic African-American business women. The last chapters explore how philanthropy sought to shape US foreign policy during the interwar period, and assess the complex relationship between art, culture and government policy during the Cold War.
In highlighting the significant role that charitable works have played in American politics and society, and the ways in which the concept of philanthropy has evolved since the mid-19th century, this collection demonstrates their value as a lens through which to view American history.
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
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
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.