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Funding Philanthropy
Susan Ash
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Description for Funding Philanthropy
Hardcover. Funding Philanthropy investigates Dr Barnardo's practices as the leading Victorian figure in child rescue in London, particularly focusing on devices associated with story-telling and public spectacle that facilitated evoking emotional responses that would lead to active support from constituents across boundaries of age, class or race. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; JKSB1; JKSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Funding Philanthropy investigates Dr Barnardo’s work and philanthropic ‘empire’ as early manifestations of promotional and branding mechanisms in the mid- to late-Victorian period, processes that would seem commonplace by the mid- to late-twentieth century. Barnardo possessed a strategic sense of what would excite people’s interest and pity, as well as a seemingly unfailing capacity to package and promote evangelical philanthropy on behalf of children, the nation and the Empire. Thus, the book explores Barnardo as creative promoter and ‘showman,’ a savvy entrepreneur in an evangelical context that overtly mandated against privileging business principles generally, and the practice of direct appeal ... Read more
Funding Philanthropy investigates Dr Barnardo’s work and philanthropic ‘empire’ as early manifestations of promotional and branding mechanisms in the mid- to late-Victorian period, processes that would seem commonplace by the mid- to late-twentieth century. Barnardo possessed a strategic sense of what would excite people’s interest and pity, as well as a seemingly unfailing capacity to package and promote evangelical philanthropy on behalf of children, the nation and the Empire. Thus, the book explores Barnardo as creative promoter and ‘showman,’ a savvy entrepreneur in an evangelical context that overtly mandated against privileging business principles generally, and the practice of direct appeal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781381397
SKU
V9781781381397
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About Susan Ash
Susan Ash is Associate Professor of History, Edith Cowan University, Australia.
Reviews for Funding Philanthropy
Reviews 'A very engaging and insightful account of Barnardo’s work.' Kate Bradley, University of Kent