Buying Respectability: Philanthropy and Urban Society in Transnational Perspective, 1840s to 1930s by Thomas Adam

Buying Respectability: Philanthropy and Urban Society in Transnational Perspective, 1840s to 1930s

Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies

Thomas Adam

239 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology
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In 19th-century Leipzig, Toronto, New York, and Boston, a newly emergent group of industrialists and entrepreneurs entered into competition with older established elite groups for social recognition as well as cultural and political leadership. Th...

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