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Donald T. Critchlow is editor of the Journal of Policy History and his books include The Brookings Institution: Expertise and Influence in a Democratic Society, Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation, and Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government.Charles H. Parker is assistant professor of history at Saint Louis University and author of The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part I: Charity and Poor Relief in Early Modern EuropeChapter 3 Poor Relief and Community in the Early Dutch RepublicChapter 4 Religious Charity and Cultural Norms in Counter-Reformation FranceChapter 5 The Provision of Work as Assistance and Correction in France/ 1534-1848Chapter 6 Good Government and Christian Charity in Early Modern ItalyChapter 7 Private Charity and the 1834 Poor LawPart 8 PArt II. United States Relief and Welfare in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesChapter 9 Orphanages vs. Adoption: The Triumph of Biological Kinship/ 1800-1933Chapter 10 Claiming the PoorChapter 11 Herbert Hoover, Associationalism, and the Great Depression Relief Crisis of 1930-1933Chapter 12 Neither Charity Nor Relief: The War on Poverty and the Effort to Redefine the Basis of Social ProvisionChapter 13 Implementing Family Planning Policy: Philanthropic Foundations and the Modern Welfare StateChapter 14 "Reforming" Relief and Welfare: Thoughts on 1834 and 1996Chapter 15 Index

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