Civic Gifts
Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State
Civic Gifts
Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State
392 pages | 9 halftones, 7 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2020
History: American History
Law and Legal Studies: Law and Society
Sociology: General Sociology, Individual, State and Society, Social History, Social Institutions
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Principles of Association and Combination
2. Civil War, Civic Expansion: The “Divine Method” of Patriotism
3. Municipal Benevolence
4. The Expansible Nation-State
5. “Everything but Government Submarines”: Limits of a Semi-governmental System
6. In the Shadow of the New Deal
7. The People’s Partnership
8. Good Citizens of a World Power
9. Combinatorial Politics and Constitutive Contradictions
Acknowledgments
Appendices
List of Abbreviations
List of Archives
Notes
References
Index
Awards
Comparative and Historical Sociology section, American Sociological Association: Barrington Moore Book Award
Won
The University of Chicago Press: Gordon J. Laing Award
Won
ASA Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity: Outstanding Published Book Award
Won
The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA): Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Prize
Won
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