Joining In: Exploring the History of Voluntary Organizations [Hardcover]

Karen J. Blair (Author)

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Publication Date: May 1, 2006 | ISBN-10: 1575240254 | ISBN-13: 978-1575240251

Students, scholars, genealogists, museum docents, and historical society volunteers who seek to investigate the multiplicity of voluntary organizations in America’s history will gain considerable guidance from this path-breaking volume. Here are the practical steps, by a seasoned historian, to locate club records, ask appropriate questions of them and make sense of the story from the perspective of the individual members, the community in which the association operates, and the broad historical themes of the past. Fifty book lists steer researchers to classic and recent publications on every type of society, the mainstream as well as the extreme.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 196 pages
• Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company (May 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575240254
• ISBN-13: 978-1575240251
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,009,454 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An in-depth study of many significant, reputable, and successful voluntary organizations from the past, July 5, 2006

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This review is from: Joining In: Exploring the History of Voluntary Organizations (Hardcover)

Co-edited by David E. Kyvig and Myron A. Marty, Joining In: Exploring The History Of Voluntary Organizations by Karen J. Blair is a remarkably informative introduction and an impressively in-depth study of many significant, reputable, and successful voluntary organizations from the past. Drawing from particular materials to address issues not generally or sufficiently covered in the heretofore available literature on organized volunteers, Joining In addresses a compendium of relevant topics important to community, social, and cooperative studies. Very strongly recommended and instructive as a cultural anthropology textbook for its multitude of sources and citation of particular documents pertaining to previous studies of voluntary organizations of all categories and themes, Joining In is enhanced with fifty book lists helpful to researchers and a core addition to academic library reference collections.