Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada

American Philanthropy and the Arts & Letters in Canada

Bibliographic Data

ID19948439
AuthorsJeffrey D Brison, Jeffrey Brison (0000-0003-0956-4788, corresponding author)
Year2005
Pages296
Publication date2005-12-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueRockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9780773572690
OpenAlexW609162697
Open LibraryOL34450103M
ISBN9780773572690
LanguageEN
Citations received14

In the first half of the twentieth century, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation helped to create and maintain a cultural and intellectual infrastructure in Canada that benefited key institutions such as University of Toronto, McGill University, the National Gallery, the Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Social Science Research Council. Jeffrey Brison documents how American philanthropy facilitated the transformation from a private, localized system of cultural, intellectual, and academic patronage to a complex, nation-based system of incorporated patronage - a system in which the major patron was the federal state. His study calls into question our essentialistic notions of contrasting national identities and the now-mythologized juxtaposition of an American culture fueled by the free market with a Canadian one sustained by state support

Art · Art history · Economic history · Political science · The arts · Visual arts · Canadian Identity and History · History · Short Stories in Global Literature · canada · civilization · Intellectual life

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