Noblesseoblige
Subtitle: charity & cultural philanthropy in Chicago, 1849-1929
By: Kathleen D. McCarthy.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- Charities -- History -- 19th century.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Charities -- History -- 20th century.
Description: Focuses on three areas of philanthropic endeavor that previously have received little scholarly attention: family welfare, medical charities, and cultural institutions. Traces the course of charity through the activities of four philanthropic generations of civil stewards: the volunteers of the 1850s, Gilded Age plutocrats, progressive iconoclasts, and Jazz Age donors. Traces the complex transition from a service ethic to a leisure ethic in the decades before the Great Depression.
Notes: Includes index.

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