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Helping Others, Helping Ourselves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Helping Others, Helping Ourselves

Individuals and communities have historically reinforced values and shaped society in ways that best fit their own objectives. This study re-evaluates the interaction between religious, ethnic-, racial-, gender-, and class-based values and ideals and giving, based on Ohio between 1990 and 1930.

Country of the Cursed and the Driven
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 657

Country of the Cursed and the Driven

2022 WHA W. Turrentine Jackson Award for best first book on the history of the American West 2022 WHA David J. Weber Prize for the best book on Southwestern History In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas--a hotly contested land where states wielded little to no real power--local alliances and controversies, face-to-face relationships, and kin ties structured personal dynamics and cross-communal concerns alike. Country of the Cursed and the Driven brings readers into this world through a sweeping analysis of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo-American slaving regimes, illuminating how slaving violence, in its capacity to bolster and shatter families and entire communities, became both the fou...

Warriors of the West Coast, Plateau, and Basin Tribes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 50

Warriors of the West Coast, Plateau, and Basin Tribes

As explorers, traders, and settlers reached new areas of North America, Native Americans' way of life came under threat. This volume gives a comprehensive look at the conflicts these tribes faced and the warriors who led them in battle. The book includes maps, full-color photographs, and engaging sidebars that paint a vivid portrait of Native American history.

Women and Philanthropy in Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

Women and Philanthropy in Education

This book illuminates the philanthropic impulse that has influenced women's education and its place in the broader history of philanthropy in America. Contributing to the history of women, education, and philanthropy, the book shows how voluntary activity and home-grown educational enterprise were as important as big donors in the development of philanthropy. The essays in Women and Philanthropy in Education are generally concerned with local rather than national effects of philanthropy, and the giving of time rather than monetary support. Many of the essays focus on the individual lives of female philanthropists (Olivia Sage, Martha Berry) and teachers (Tsuda Umeko, Catharine Beecher), offering personal portraits of philanthropy in the 19th and 20th centuries. These stories provide evidence of the key role played by women in the development of philanthropy and its importance to the education of women. Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies -- Dwight F. Burlingame and David C. Hammack, editors

Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine

In this volume the borders of North America serve as central locations for examining the consequences of globalization as it intersects with hegemonic spaces and ideas, national territorialism, and opportunities for—or restrictions on—mobility. The authors of the essays in this collection warn against falling victim to the myth of nation-states engaging in a valiant struggle against transnational flows of crime and vice. They take a long historical perspective, from Mesoamerican counterfeits of cacao beans used as currency to cattle rustling to human trafficking; from Canada’s and Mexico’s different approaches to the illegality of liquor in the United States during Prohibition to con...

Fortitudine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 40

Fortitudine

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1987
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915-1930
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915-1930

A study of African Americans in Ohio-notably, Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati. Giffin argues that the "color line" in Ohio hardened as the Great Migration gained force. His data shows, too, that the color line varied according to urban area, hardening progressively as one traveled South in the state.

Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 657

Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics

Presents a comprehensive reference to the role of women in American politics and government, including biographies, related topics, organizations, primary documents, and significant court cases.

Contributing Citizens
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Contributing Citizens

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-01-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Contributing Citizens tells the social, cultural, and political history of Community Chests, the forerunners of today's United Way, to provide a unique perspective on the evolution of professional fundraising, private charity, and the development of the welfare state. Blending a national perspective with rich case studies of Halifax, Ottawa, and Vancouver, Shirley Tillotson shows that fundraising work in the mid-twentieth century involved organizing and promoting social responsibility in new ways, sometimes coercively. In the 1940s and 1950s, fundraisers adopted the language of welfare state reform and helped to establish both the notion of universal contribution and the foundation of community organization from which major social policies grew. Peopled by a host of forceful characters, this is a lively account of how raising money raised the level of Canadian democracy.