Philanthropy and Police: London Charity in the Eighteenth CenturyIn this study of voluntary charities in eighteenth century London, Donna Andrew reconsiders the adequacy of humanitarianism as an explanation for the wave of charitable theorizing and experimentation that characterized this period. Focusing on London, the most visible area of both destitution and social experimentation, this book examines the political as well as benevolent motives behind the great expansion of public institutions nondenominational