Financing Poor Relief through Charitable Collections in Dutch Towns, c. 1600-1800 (Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age) - Hardcover

Book 9 of 33: Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age

Teeuwen, Daniëlle

 
9789089647931: Financing Poor Relief through Charitable Collections in Dutch Towns, c. 1600-1800 (Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9089647937 ISBN 13: 9789089647931
Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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).

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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.

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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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9089647937
ISBN 13 
9789089647931
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
230

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