Charity, Philanthropy and Reform From the 1690s to 1850

The essays in this volume explore continuities and changes in the role of philanthropic organizations in Europe and North America in the period around the French Revolution. They aim to make connections between research on the early modern and late modern periods, and to analyze policies towards poverty in different countries within Europe and across the Atlantic. Cunningham and Innes highlight the new role for voluntary organizations emerging in the late eighteenth century and draws out the implications of this for received accounts of the development of welfare states.

List of Maps Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; H. Cunningham State, Church and Voluntarism in European Welfare, 1690-1850; J. Innes Head versus Heart? Voluntary Associations and Charity Organisation in England c. 1700-1850; M. J. D. Roberts 'To the Charitable and Humane': Appeals for Assistance in the Eighteenth-Century London Press; D. Andrew Charity as Boundary Making: Social Stratification, Gender and the Family in the Italian States (Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries); S. Cavallo Transforming the Nation and the Child: Philanthropy in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and England, c. 1780-c. 1850; J.J.H. Dekker Religion, Philanthropy and the State in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Ireland; M. Luddy 'La Charit?st une M?': Catholic Women and Poor Relief in France, 1690-1850; H. Mills English Rational Dissent and Philanthropy, c. 1760-c. 1810; G. M. Ditchfield The Evolution of a Transatlantic Debate on Penal Reform, 1780-1830; K. Lloyd and C. Burgoyne The Anglo-American Unitarian Connection and Urban Poverty; D. Turley Bibliography Index

DONNA T. ANDREW Lecturer of Modern British History, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada CINDY BURGOYNE currently completing a PhD at the University of Sunderland SANDRA CAVALLO Lecturer in Early Modern European History, Royal Holloway, University of London JEROEN J H DEKKER Professor of History and Theory of Education, University of Groningen G M DITCHFIELD Senior Lecturer in History, University of Kent KATHERINE LLOYD D.Phil, New College, Oxford MARIA LUDDY Senior Lecturer in History, Institute of Education, University of Warwick HAZEL MILLS co-editor of the journal Gender and History MICHAEL J D ROBERTS Senior Lecturer in History, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia DAVID TURLEY Senior Lecturer in History, University of Kent.