Civic charity in a golden age
Subtitle: orphan care in early modern Amsterdam
By: Anne E.C. McCants.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Burgerweeshuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands) -- History.; Orphanages -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History -- 17th century.; Orphanages -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History -- 18th century.; Poor -- Services for -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History.; Charities -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: Charitable behavior and the rise of capitalism; title: Care for the middling; title: Diet, well-being, and institutional mortality; title: Becoming productive; title: The politics of friends and money; title: Fiscally conservative and culturally lavish; title: The rise and decline of an institutional endowment.