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Civic charity in a golden age : orphan care in early modern Amsterdam
Title
Civic charity in a golden age : orphan care in early modern Amsterdam / Anne E.C. McCants.
ISBN
0252023331
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.
Physical Description
viii, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-271) and index.
Contents
Charitable behavior and the rise of capitalism
Care for the middling
Diet, well-being, and institutional mortality
Becoming productive
The politics of friends and money
Fiscally conservative and culturally lavish
The rise and decline of an institutional endowment.
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