Charity, Philanthropy and Reform

DONNA T. ANDREW Lecturer of Modern British History, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada CINDY BURGOYNE currently completing a PhD at the University of Sunderland SANDRA CAVALLO Lecturer in Early Modern European History, Royal Holloway, University of London JEROEN J H DEKKER Professor of History and Theory of Education, University of Groningen G M DITCHFIELD Senior Lecturer in History, University of Kent KATHERINE LLOYD D.Phil, New College, Oxford MARIA LUDDY Senior Lecturer in History, Institute of Education, University of Warwick HAZEL MILLS co-editor of the journal Gender and History MICHAEL J D ROBERTS Senior Lecturer in History, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia DAVID TURLEY Senior Lecturer in History, University of Kent.

• List of Maps Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; H. Cunningham State, Church and Voluntarism in European Welfare, 1690-1850; J. Innes Head versus Heart? Voluntary Associations and Charity Organisation in England c. 1700-1850; M. J. D. Roberts 'To the Charitable and Humane': Appeals for Assistance in the Eighteenth-Century London Press; D. Andrew Charity as Boundary Making: Social Stratification, Gender and the Family in the Italian States (Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries); S. Cavallo Transforming the Nation and the Child: Philanthropy in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and England, c. 1780-c. 1850; J.J.H. Dekker Religion, Philanthropy and the State in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Ireland; M. Luddy 'La Charit�st une M�': Catholic Women and Poor Relief in France, 1690-1850; H. Mills English Rational Dissent and Philanthropy, c. 1760-c. 1810; G. M. Ditchfield The Evolution of a Transatlantic Debate on Penal Reform, 1780-1830; K. Lloyd and C. Burgoyne The Anglo-American Unitarian Connection and Urban Poverty; D. Turley Bibliography Index