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