The Culture of Giving - Ilana Krausman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Amos - Bog

An innovative study of gift-giving, informal support and charity in England between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries. The author examines the transformation of varied forms of informal help, arguing that the early modern era witnessed the diversification, increase and invigoration, rather than the demise, of informal support.