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From the mid-19th century until the rise of the modern welfare
state in the early 20th century, Anglo-American philanthropic
giving gained an unprecedented measure of cultural authority as it
changed in kind and degree. Civil society took on the
responsibility for confronting the adverse effects of
industrialism, and transnational discussions of poverty,
urbanization, women's work, and sympathy provided a means of
understanding and debating social reform. While philanthropic
institutions left a transactional record of money and materials,
philanthropic discourse yielded a rich corpus of writing that
represented, rationalized, and shaped these rapidly industrializing
societies, drawing on and informing other modernizing discourses
including religion, economics, and social science. Showing the
fundamentally transatlantic nature of this discourse from 1850 to
1920, the authors gather a wide variety of literary sources that
crossed national and colonial borders within the Anglo-American
range of influence. Through manifestos, fundraising tracts, novels,
letters, and pamphlets, they piece together the intellectual world
where philanthropists reasoned through their efforts and redefined
the public sector.
From the mid-19th century until the rise of the modern welfare
state in the early 20th century, Anglo-American philanthropic
giving gained an unprecedented measure of cultural authority as it
changed in kind and degree. Civil society took on the
responsibility for confronting the adverse effects of
industrialism, and transnational discussions of poverty,
urbanization, women's work, and sympathy provided a means of
understanding and debating social reform. While philanthropic
institutions left a transactional record of money and materials,
philanthropic discourse yielded a rich corpus of writing that
represented, rationalized, and shaped these rapidly industrializing
societies, drawing on and informing other modernizing discourses
including religion, economics, and social science. Showing the
fundamentally transatlantic nature of this discourse from 1850 to
1920, the authors gather a wide variety of literary sources that
crossed national and colonial borders within the Anglo-American
range of influence. Through manifestos, fundraising tracts, novels,
letters, and pamphlets, they piece together the intellectual world
where philanthropists reasoned through their efforts and redefined
the public sector.
Learning Legacies explores the history of cross-cultural teaching
approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories
about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins
demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted dominant
conventions and expectations about learners to navigate cultural
differences. Using case studies of educational initiatives on
behalf of African American women, Native American children, and the
urban poor, Learning Legacies promotes the importance of knowledge
grounded in the histories and cultures of the many racial and
ethnic groups that have always comprised America's populace,
underscoring the value of rich cultural knowledge in pedagogy by
illustrating how creative teachers still draw on these learning
legacies today.
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