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• Law, Charity

• The Dodd Report to the Reece Committee on Foundations (with commentary by the publisher; New York: Long House, c1954), by Norman Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)

• Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust (originally published 2006; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017), by Samuel P. King and Randall W. Roth
  • multiple formats with commentary at Hawaii
  • HTML at Project MUSE

• Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria: From the Original Manuscript in the Possession of the Right Hon. Earl Cowper, K.G. (2 volumes in Latin with English notes; London: Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1897), ed. by Stuart A. Moore
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Cartulaire des Abbayes de Saint-Pierre de la Couture et de Saint-Pierre de Solesmes (cartulary in Latin, with introduction and notes in French; Le Mans: Typ. E. Monnoyer, 1881), ed. by Congrégation de France (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Richard Herr (HTML at UC Press)

• Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Richard Herr (HTML at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Memoir on Pauperism (London: Civitas, c1997), by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. by Seymour Drescher, contrib. by Gertrude Himmelfarb (PDF at Civitas)
• A Discourse Touching Provision for the Poor, by Matthew Hale (text at McMaster)
• A Dissertation on the Poor Laws, by Joseph Townsend (HTML at McMaster)
• Poor Law Commissioners' Report of 1834, by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (HTML at econlib.org)
• The Book of the Bastiles: or, The History of the Working of the New Poor Law (London: J. Stephens, 1841), by G. R. Wythen Baxter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Cottage Economy; To Which is Added, The Poor Man's Friend (New York: J. Doyle, 1833), by William Cobbett (Gutenberg text)

• Labour on the Land: Containing a Plan for the Employment of the Destitute Poor on Agricultural Occupations; With Observations on the Working of the Present Systems (1846), by S. W. Blackall (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Special Report of the Board of State Commissioners for the General Supervision of Charitable, Penal, Pauper, and Reformatory Institutions, by Michigan State Board of Corrections and Charities (page images at MOA)

• Speech of Hon. George A. Gordon, of Chatham, on the Constitutionality of the Conscription Laws, Passed by the Congress of the Confederate States, by George Anderson Gordon (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)
• House of Hospitality (1939), by Dorothy Day (HTML at Catholic Worker)
• Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical (3 volumes from various editions printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798-1802), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Literature of Philanthropy (New York: Harper and Bros., 1893), ed. by Frances A. Goodale (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Social Diagnosis (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1917), by Mary Ellen Richmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Complete Works of Count Rumford, Published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (4 volumes; Boston: Estes and Lauriat, ca. 1870-1875), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Women of Canada: Their Life and Work (ca.1900), by National Council of Women of Canada (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Historical Sketch of the Charitable Institutions of Winnipeg (Winnipeg: Manitoba Free Press Co., 1899), by Mrs. George Bryce (multiple formats at archive.org)

• South Carolina Women in the Confederacy (Columbia, SC: The State Co., 1903-1907), by United Daughters of the Confederacy South Carolina Division
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust (originally published 2006; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017), by Samuel P. King and Randall W. Roth
  • multiple formats with commentary at Hawaii
  • HTML at Project MUSE

• An Abstract From the Account of the Asylum, or, House of Refuge, Situate in the Parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surry: Instituted in the Year 1758, for the Reception of Friendless and Deserted Orphan Girls, the Settlement of Whose Parents Cannot be Found (London: Printed by order of the Guardians, 1799), by Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England) (page images at NIH)

• Helping the Poor: Friendly Visiting, Dole Charities and Dole Queues (c2001), by Robert Whelan, contrib. by Barendina Smedley (PDF at Civitas)

• London Labour and the London Poor (London: Griffin, Bohn and Co., 1861-1862), by Henry Mayhew
  • Volume 1: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at Google
  • extra volume: illustrated HTML at Tufts
  • extra volume: multiple formats at archive.org

• Quicksilver: or, The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Frank Dadd (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Under the Old Roof, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• A Girl of the People, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)
• A Girl of the People: A Novel (Montreal: J. Lovell, c1890), by L. T. Meade (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoir on Pauperism (London: Civitas, c1997), by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. by Seymour Drescher, contrib. by Gertrude Himmelfarb (PDF at Civitas)
• Woman's Mission: A Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women, By Eminent Writers (New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1893), ed. by Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Isle of Man Charities (1831), by J. McHutchin and George Quirk (HTML at Manx Note Book)

• History of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (page images at MOA)

• The Charities Review (full serial archives)
• The Charity Organisation Review (partial serial archives)
• The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (full serial archives)

• Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)

• American Charities (revised edition; New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., c1908), by Amos Griswold Warner and Mary Roberts Coolidge, contrib. by George Elliott Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Behind the Bars (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1871), by Adeline T. P. Lunt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook of Organization and Method in Hospital Social Service: An Outline of Policies As Practiced at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. (Baltimore: Norman, Remington Co., 1922), by Margaret Smith Brogden (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits; With an Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools (third edition, with added material; London: J. Tonson, 1724), by Bernard Mandeville (multiple formats at Google)

• The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Humanitarian Coooperation, 2007), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• To Bear Witness: A Journey of Healing and Solidarity (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Story of Near East Relief (1915-1930): An Interpretation (New York: Macmillan, 1930), by James L. Barton, contrib. by Calvin Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)

• The City Wilderness: A Settlement Study, by Residents and Associates of the South End House (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), ed. by Robert Archey Woods (page images at HathiTrust)

• Woman's Mission: A Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work of Women, By Eminent Writers (New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., ca. 1893), ed. by Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mildmay: or, The Story of the First Deaconess Institution (second edition; London: E. Stock, 1893), by Harriette J. Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.