Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies / German Philanthropy in Transatlantic Perspective

Introduction (Gregory Witkowski and Arnd Bauerkämper).- Philanthropy: Theory and Comparison.-  Foundations in Germany and the United States: Comparative Observation (Stefan Toepler).- Philanthropic Giving: Reasons and Constellations (Frank Adloff).- German Philanthropy in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Dictatorship.- Philanthropy, Race, and Religion: The Gustav Adolf Association and National Socialism (Kevin Cramer).- Transnational Asymmetries. U.S. philanthropic foundations and the German School of Politics in the 1920s and 1930s (Peter Weber).- German Philanthropy in Transatlantic Perspective.- Reintegrating Germany into the Atlantic Community: The Role of the Big American Foundations(Volker Berghahn).- "America" as an Argument: References to U.S. Foundations in Debates about Scientific Funding in West-Germany from 1945 to the late 1960s (Arnd Bauerkämper).- Reinhold Schairer and the Revival of the German PhilanthropicTradition from Weimar to the Federal Republic (Malcolm Richardson).- Philanthropy in Divided Germany.- Charitable Giving between the State and the Market: West Germany from 1945 to the 1980s (Gabriele Lingelbach).- From Restructuring to Dissolution to Rebuilding? Foundations and Endowments in East Germany (Thomas Adam).- International and Transnational German Philanthropy.- "Germans against Germans in Africa" East German Philanthropic Aid in the Context of the Cold War (Gregory Witkowski).- The Biafra-Crisis and the Establishment of Humanitarian Aid in West Germany as a New Philanthropic Field (Florian Hannig).- Contemporary German MONGOs in Diani, Kenya: Two Approaches to Humanitarian Aid (Nina Berman).