Financing Poor Relief through Charitable Collections in Dutch Towns, c. 1600-1800.

Teeuwen, Daniëlle.

ISBN 10: 9089647937 / ISBN 13: 9789089647931

Editore: Routledge, 2015

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Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2015. Hardcover. 240 pp. - In the Dutch Republic, charitable collections, which formed the financial backbone of many poor relief institutions, were regularly organised by both religious and secular authorities. This book examines both the policies of church boards and town councils in organising these charitable appeals, as well as the general population's giving behaviour. Using archival sources from the towns of Delft, Utrecht, Zwolle, and 's-Hertogenbosch, Daniëlle Teeuwen shows how these authorities deployed organisational and rhetorical tactics-including creating awareness, establishing trust, and exerting pressure-to successfully promote fundraising campaigns. Not only did many relief institutions manage to collect large annual sums, but contributions came from across the socioeconomic spectrum. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9789089647931. Keywords : HISTORY,

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• Titolo: Financing Poor Relief through Charitable Collections in Dutch Towns, c. 1600-1800.
• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9089647937
• ISBN 13: 9789089647931
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: as new

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Riassunto

In the Dutch Republic, charitable collections were regularly organized by both religious and secular authorities. This book examines the policies of church boards and town councils in organizing these charitable appeals, as well as the general population’s giving behavior. Using archival sources from the towns of Delft, Utrecht, Zwolle, and ’s-Hertogenbosch, Daniëlle Teeuwen shows how these authorities deployed organizational and rhetorical tactics—including creating awareness, establishing trust, and exerting pressure—to successfully promote fundraising campaigns. Not only did many relief institutions manage to collect large annual sums, but contributions came from across the socioeconomic spectrum.

Informazioni sugli autori

Daniëlle Teeuwen wrote her PhD thesis at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, as part of the NWO-project 'Giving in the Golden Age'. She has published in Continuity and Change, the European Review of Economic History, and Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis. She is currently working as a postdoc researcher within the NWO-project 'Industriousness in an Imperial Economy', in which her research deals with women's and children's labour in the Dutch East Indies (c. 1815-1940).

Daniëlle Teeuwen is a postdoctoral researcher at Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands.