1st Edition
Cloak of Charity Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philanthropy
By Betsy Rodgers
Copyright 1949
207 Pages
by
Routledge
207 Pages
by
Routledge
207 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1949, Cloak of Charity provides a short history of philanthropy in the eighteenth-century. The author asserts that the history of charity is the history of the changes which have occurred in the attitude of the rich towards the poor. The character of philanthropy changed considerably during the course of the eighteenth-century and it is this change that the book traces. This... Read more
1. Charity and the Poor 2. Homeless Children 3. Paupers and Prostitutes 4. Prison Reform 5. Sunday Schools 6. Schools of Industry 7. Schools of Mendips 8. The Abolition of the Slave-Trade Index
Biography
Betsy Rodgers
