Charity, Philanthropy and Reform

The essays in this volume explore continuities and changes in the role of philanthropic organizations in Europe and North America in the period around the French Revolution. They aim to make connections between research on the early modern and late modern periods, and to analyze policies towards poverty in different countries within Europe and across the Atlantic. Cunningham and Innes highlight the new role for voluntary organizations emerging in the late eighteenth century and draws out the implications of this for received accounts of the development of welfare states.

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.