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Making the nonprofit sector in the United States : a reader

David C. Hammack (Editor)
How did the United States come to rely so heavily on non-profits? How have Americans sought to control them? These questions suggest the complexity of the history of non-profits in the United States. This reader presents some of the documents in the development of the non-profit sector along with interpretations by scholars.
Print Book, English, ©1998
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Ind., ©1998
History
xix, 481 pages ; 25 cm.
9780253334893, 9780253214102, 0253334896, 0253214106
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The statute of charitable uses, 1601 ; The Elizabethan Poor Law, 1601 ; Report to the viceroy of Mexico on conditions at Santa Fe, 1601 / Juan de Escalona ; A model of Christian charity, 1630 / John Winthrop ; Laws regulating religion, 1642 ; New England's First Fruits, 1643 / Hugh Peter, Thomas Weld ; Account of the ceremony proclaiming new France, 1671 / Claude Jean Allouz ; Remonstrance against the law against Quakers, 1657 ; Virginia's cure, 1662 / Roger Greene ; The great case of liberty of conscience, 1670 / William Penn ; Bonifacius: essays to do good, 1710 / Cotton Mather ; Argument against Anglican control of King's College (Columbia), 1753 / William Livingston ; Journal of the Carolina backcountry, 1767-68 / Charles Woodmason ; Autobiography: recollections of institution-building, 1771-84 / Benjamin Franklin ; Cato's letters: arguments against a strong central government, 1720 / John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon ; Argument against taxes for religious purposes in Massachusetts, 1774 / Isaac Backus ; Virginia act establishing religious freedom, 1786 / Thomas Jefferson ; The Federalist, no. 10, 1787 / James Madison ; The Constitution of the United States, excerpts, 1789, and the first and tenth amendments, 1791 ; Autobiographical statement on the 1818 disestablishment of the "standing order" in Connecticut, 1864 / Lyman Beecher ; The Dartmouth College case. Argument before the U.S. Supreme Court, 1818 / Daniel Webster ; Decision / John Marshall ; Concurring opinion, 1819 / Joseph Story ; Political associations in the United States, 1835, and of the use which Americans make of public associations in civil society, 1840 / Alexis de Tocqueville ; Organized activity among slaves ; The suppression of religion among slaves, 1849 / Henry Bibb ; Account of slave preachers, 1839 / Daniel A. Payne ; The voluntary principle in American Christianity, 1844 / Robert Baird ; Institutions, autonomy, and national networks, 1982 / Peter Dobkin Hall ; Social Catholicism, 1975 / Jay P. Dolan ; The Jewish tradition of community, 1970 / Arthur A. Goren ; Women together organizations in Antebellum Petersburg, Virginia, 1984 / Suzanne Lebsock ; Parallel power structures: women and the voluntary sphere, 1990 / Kathleen D. McCarthy ; Economic cooperation among Negro Americans, 1907 / W.E.B. Dubois ; Debate over government subsidies. Argument against public subsidies to private charities, 1908 / Amos G. Warner ; The unofficial government of cities, 1900 / Everett P. Wheeler ; Business at the bedside: health care in Brooklyn, 1890-1915 (1979) / David Rosner ; Address on the tenth anniversary of the Rockefeller Institute, 1911 / Frederick T. Gates ; Community foundations: the delicate question of purpose, 1989 / David C. Hammack ; Community chest, 1957 / John R. Seeley et al / The March of Dimes: origins and prospects, 1957 / David L. Sills ; Pierce v. Society of the Sisters. Brief for private schools / William D. Guthrie, Bernard Hershkopf ; Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1925 / Justice McReynolds ; Debate over a Great Society nonprofit organization in Mississippi: testimony on the child development Group of Mississippi and the Head Start Program, 1967 / John Stennis, Marian Wright ; The Third Sector, 1974 ; The political economy of nonprofit revenues, 1993 / Steven Rathgeb Smith, Michael Lipsky ; Rust v. Sullivan: decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1991 / William Renquist
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