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Quite simply, patronage is some form of support, usually money and/or resources, from someone with more money than you who likes you and/or who willingly offers a…ssistance. Federal Pell Grants represent a sort of "governmental patronage" for a student. Great artists/musicians/writers often have patrons who bestow money upon them so they may continue to flourish in their trade. Hope this helps! (MORE)
There are four kinds of patronage. These include donations ofcultural assets, restoration of cultural heritage, training ofspecialists in heritage, and promotion and awareness… of heritage. (MORE)
Patronage was popular during the Renaissance. It is therelationship between a wealthy family and artisan. An example isthe Medici family and Botticelli.
Patronage, simply put, basically means offices or jobs. Writing a good sentence is where you can use it to tell what the word means. Here's mine: Patronage was beginning to …increase again and so the homeless were decreasing. (MORE)
Debt patronage , a system common to regions of acute labor shortages, notably central Mexico. Debt patronage took form during the late sixteenth century. Debt patronage ben…efited mainly the big hacendados, who, with capital at hand, were able to entice Indians to their estates by offering to pay them. The peons were given small plots on which to plant corn, beans, and squash. With workers at their disposal, the hacendados could then, by acquiring additional land, expand their plantings, multiply their harvest, and monopolize local and regional markets. Relying on debt patronage, the big haciendas became the lords of the countryside of central Mexico. They were, in essence, units of production endowed with enough land to plant and to let lie fallow, granaries to store the harvest, houses for hacendados and mayordomos, huts for workers, buildings for blacksmiths, and sheds to keep farm implements in. (MORE)
Patronage is the system of political, financial or social support that people give to each other. Usually - and since the time of ancient Rome - it means that a socially impor…tant person is supported in his position of power and he in return uses that power to provide his supporters where necessary with financial aid, jobs and other forms of help. The most common form today is to be found in a lot of political systems where (financial) supporters of a politician are rewarded with jobs. African countries almost all have extended patronage systems. But even in the US big financial supporters of a succesful presidential candidates for instance are often rewarded with ambassadorships. Although it may look like a form of graft to outsiders, patronage is often deeply embedded in a country's culture and their people see it as the fabric that holds their society together and as a form of social security. (MORE)