In:
Law and History Review, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 3, No. 1 ( 1985), p. 51-89
Abstract:
Private individuals and voluntary associations have dominated the creation and direction of institutions of health, education, culture and good works throughout most of American history. Notwithstanding the great increase of government activity in these areas during the last fifty years, the extent to which private decisions structure public endeavors continues to distinguish our experience from that of other western cultures. Indeed, the unprecedented accumulation of large amounts of private capital which marked the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the desire of the owners of that wealth to devote some part of it to ‘benevolent’ purposes resulted in the formation of philanthropic foundations, so large in scope and so immodest in purpose, that they continue today to play a major role in our society.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0738-2480
,
1939-9022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1985
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2050177-8
SSG:
2
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