{"product_id":"civic-charity-in-a-golden-age","title":"Civic Charity in a Golden Age","description":"    Using the Amsterdam Municipal Orphanage as a window through which readers\u003cbr\u003e         can see the start of profound social and economic changes in early modern\u003cbr\u003e         Amsterdam, \u003ci\u003eCivic Charity in a Golden Age \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the connections\u003cbr\u003e         between the developing capitalist economy, the functioning of the government,\u003cbr\u003e         and the provision of charitable services to orphans in Amsterdam during\u003cbr\u003e         the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the period of the city's greatest\u003cbr\u003e         prosperity and subsequent decline.\u003cbr\u003e       Anne McCants skillfully interprets details of the orphanage's expenditures,\u003cbr\u003e         especially for food; its population; the work records of those who were\u003cbr\u003e         reared there; and the careers of the regents who oversaw it. The establishment\u003cbr\u003e         of the orphanage itself was called for by the changing economic needs\u003cbr\u003e         of rapidly expanding commercial centers and the potential instability\u003cbr\u003e         of a government that depended on taxes from a large, politically powerless\u003cbr\u003e         segment of the population.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54263368712536,"sku":"9780252023330","price":45.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/civic-charity-in-a-golden-age","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}