Thomas Adam is Assistant Professor of German and Transatlantic European History at the University of Texas at Arlington.

• Preliminary Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Thomas AdamPart I. Philanthropy in a Transatlantic World1.Philanthropy and the Shaping of Social Distinctions in nineteenth-century American, Canadian and German cities, Thomas Adam2. "The Glue of Civil Society" - A Comparative Approach to Art-Museum Philanthropy at the turn of the Century, Karsten Borgmann3. Self-Help and Philanthropy: the Emergence of Co-operatives in Britain, Germany, the U.S.A., and Canada from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth Century, Brett Fairbairn4. Patronage and the Great Institutions of the Cities of the United States: Questions and Evidence, 1800-2000, David C. HammackPart II. Between Market and State: Philanthropy and Social Elites5. Philanthropy and Science in Wilhelmine Germany, Eckhardt Fuchs/Dieter Hoffmann6.The serious matter of true joy: music and cultural philanthropy in Leipzig, 1781-1933, Margaret Eleanor Menninger7. Changing Perceptions of Philanthropy in the Voluntary Housing Field in nineteenth and early twentieth century London, Susannah MorrisPart III. Jewish philanthropy and Embourgeoisment8. Rabbinic Study, Self-Improvement, and Philanthropy: Gender and the Re-Fashioning of Jewish Voluntary Associations in Germany, 1750-1870, Maria Benjamin Baader Appendix One9. Ethnic Difference and Civic Unity: A German-American Comparison of Jewish Communal Philanthropy in the Nineteenth Century City, Tobias Brinkmann10. Bürgerlichkeit, Patronage and Communal Liberalism in Germany before World War One, Simone LässigContributorsIndexContributors: Contributor bios to come

". . . I recommend it to anyone wondering about the validity of fundraising, as it positions philanthropy at the heart of many of the most exciting and important changes within society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."—Philanthropy UK Newsletter". . . view[ing] philanthropy not as an American but a European or even German invention . . . is one of the major insights . . ."—H-German