Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 State, Church and Voluntarism in European Welfare, 1690–1850

Chapter 3 Head versus Heart? Voluntary Associations and Charity Organization in England, c.1700–1850

Chapter 4 ‘To the Charitable and Humane’: Appeals for Assistance in the Eighteenth-Century London Press

Chapter 5 Charity as Boundary Making: Social Stratification, Gender and the Family in the Italian States (Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries)

Chapter 6 Transforming the Nation and the Child: Philanthropy in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and England, c.1780–c.1850

Chapter 7 Religion, Philanthropy and the State in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Chapter 8 ‘La Charité est une Mère’: Catholic Women and Poor Relief in France, 1690–1850

Chapter 9 English Rational Dissent and Philanthropy, c.1760–c.1810

Chapter 10 The Evolution of a Transatlantic Debate on Penal Reform, 1780–1830