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1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781350294974
Content:
Led by Ben Offiler and Rachel Williams, the authors demonstrate the benefits of embracing a broad definition of philanthropy, examining how American concepts including benevolence and charity have been used and interpreted by different groups and individuals in an effort to shape - and at least nominally to improve - people's lives both within and beyond the United States
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Introduction --Part I: Societies in History: Eurocentrism and its Discontent --1. The Quest of Universality: From the Enlightenment to Marxism --2. Comparatism and Social History --3. Social Solidarity and Longue Duree Perspectives from Durkheim to the Annales School --Part II: What is a Source? Archives, Memory and Contested Contextualities --4. Revolutionary Archives --5. Decolonization of Archives, Decolonization in the Archives --Part III: The Social Life of Data --6. Economic Statistics --7. Weather Forecasting in the Tropics: Science, Divination or both? --8. Data on Health, Animals and Human Beings: The Trichinosis Epidemic in France, 1878-1891 --Part IV: Fragments of Social Worlds --9. What is a Worker? Slavery, Status and Contract in the Liberal Era --10. What is a Peasant? The Global History of 'Immobile People' --11. What is a Consumer? Identities in Food --Conclusion
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350276826
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350276833
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350276840
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350276857
Language:
Undetermined
DOI:
10.5040/9781350294974
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