Download or read book Giving written by Jerome B. Schneewind and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What ways do we have for understanding charity and philanthropy? How do we come to think in these ways? In this volume, historians of antiquity, the middle ages, early modern thought, and the Victorian era discuss the evolution of thinking about and practicing voluntary giving, taking up some inescapable questions about charity.