| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Thomas Adam, editor. Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society: Experiences from Germany, Great Britain, and North America. (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 228. $37.95.
This slim volume of essays has a worthy topic: cross-Atlantic philanthropic activity during the last three centuries. However, its ambition overreaches its achievement. With one exception, an essay by American historian David Hammack, the volume suffers from dry writing and insufficiently developed case studies.	1
The product of a conference held at the University of Toronto in 2001, the book contains ten essays. Conference participants included American, Canadian, British, and German scholars, and, not surprisingly, the resulting publication uses American, Canadian, British, and German examples to assess philanthropy in the transatlantic world. Editor Thomas Adam exaggerates when he claims that the history of cultural exhanges between European and North American societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is "an all-but-unknown" field (p. 2). Indeed, Michael Katz and Christoph Sachsse's edited volume, The Mixed Economy of Social Welfare: Public/Private Relations in England, Germany, and the United States (1996), provides a better introduction to roles played by voluntary associations in modern Western societies.	2
Nonetheless, Adams correctly notes that the pre-eighteenth-century period of European global exploration has won greater attention. Moreover, this volume's three sections raise interesting questions. To what degree did modern Western philanthropy consciously adopt international models? Did connections exist between the practice of philanthropy and the processes of embourgeoisement? What roles did Jewish philanthropy play in Germany and the United States?	. . .

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