Rockefeller, Carnegie, And Canada
Subtitle: American Philanthropy And The Arts And Letters In Canada
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: March 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780773528680
Subjects: American history; Cultural studies; The Arts: General Issues; History: World; History; History - General History; Canada; Canada - General; 20e siáecle; 20th century; Arts; Endowment of research; Endowments; Foundations; Histoire
Description: "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 the 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 of Canada's private, localized system of cultural, intellectual, and academic patronage into a complex, nation-based system of incorporated patronage - a system in which the major patron was the federal state.

His study calls into question the now-mythologized distinction between an American culture fueled by the free market and a Canadian one sustained by state support."--Jacket.