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Focuses on the provisions that have been made for the welfare of children throughout America's development
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9780674116139 | Harvard Univ Pr, December 1, 1974, cover price $211.50 | About this edition: Focuses on the provisions that have been made for the welfare of children throughout America's development
9780674116122 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1971, cover price $211.50 | About this edition: Focuses on the provisions that have been made for the welfare of children throughout America's development
9780674116108, titled "Children and Youth in America: A Documentary History." | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1971, cover price $106.50 | About this edition: Focuses on the provisions that have been made for the welfare of children throughout America's development
9780674116122 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1971, cover price $211.50 | About this edition: Focuses on the provisions that have been made for the welfare of children throughout America's development
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9780882955049 | Harlan Davidson, June 1, 1971, cover price $19.95
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9780405059681 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1974, cover price $29.95 | also contains The Heroic Boldness of Martin Luther
Product Description: Public provision for the rights of children has, at last, a complete documentary history. In three volumes, covering United States history from 1600 to the present, this is a monumental contribution in an area central to American domestic policy...read more
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9780674116146 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1974, cover price $65.50 | About this edition: Public provision for the rights of children has, at last, a complete documentary history.
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9780405059544 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1974, cover price $19.00 | also contains The Suicide and Homicide Risk Assessment & Prevention Treatment Planner, with DSM-5 Updates
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9780405059650 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1974, cover price $25.50 | also contains Foundations of Grace
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9780405059506 | Ayer Co Pub, September 1, 1974, cover price $23.50
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9780226113418 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1974, cover price $8.50
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9780814203088 | Ohio State Univ Pr, September 1, 1982, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Great book for research, study or review of reshaping Americans!
Product Description: Book by Bremner, Robert H., Reichard, Gary W.
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9780814203682 | Ohio State Univ Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $47.50 | About this edition: Book by Bremner, Robert H.
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9780226073255 | 2 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1988), cover price $32.00
Product Description: In contrast to cultures that have accepted poverty as inevitable, Americans have tended to regard it as an abnormal condition, one that may be alleviated by a combination of social reform, hard work, and spiritual discipline. In a dispassionate way, Bremner was the first to critically examine the origins and transformations of American attitudes toward poverty and reform...read more
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9781560005827 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, October 1, 1992), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: In contrast to cultures that have accepted poverty as inevitable, Americans have tended to regard it as an abnormal condition, one that may be alleviated by a combination of social reform, hard work, and spiritual discipline.
"According to Greek mythology mankind's first benefactor was the Titan, Prometheus, who gave fire, previously the exclusive possession of the gods, to mortal man." With these words the esteemed scholar Robert Bremner presents the first full-fledged history of attitudes toward charity and philanthropy. Giving is a perfect complement to his earlier work The Discovery of Poverty in the United States. 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. Bremner describes the ancient world and classical attitudes toward giving and begging; Middle Ages and early modern times, emphasizing hospitals and patients and donors and attributes of charity; the eighteenth century and the age of benevolence; the nineteenth century and the growth of the concept of public relief and social policy; and a careful multiple chapter review of the twentieth century. Bremner reviews the act of giving in such comparative contexts as London, England and Kasrilevke, Russia with such figures as Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, and Sholem Aleichem, as well as the more familiar wealthy industrialist/philanthropists, forming part of the narrative. The final chapters bring the story up to date, discussing the relationships of modem philanthropy and organized charity, and the uses of philanthropy in education and the arts. Bremner has an astonishing knowledge of the cultural context and the economic contents of philanthropy. As a result, this volume is intriguing as well as important history, written with lively style and wit. Whether the reader is a professional in the so-called "third stream" or "independent sector," or simply a citizen wondering just what the act of giving and the spirit of receiving is all about, Giving will be compelling reading. (view table of contents)
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9781560001379 | Transaction Pub, May 1, 1994, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: "According to Greek mythology mankind's first benefactor was the Titan, Prometheus, who gave fire, previously the exclusive possession of the gods, to mortal man.
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9781560008842 | Transaction Pub, February 1, 1996, cover price $30.95
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9780911312898 | Robert Schalkenbach Fndtn, June 1, 1995, cover price $10.00
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