Title Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada : American philanthropy and the arts and letters in Canada / Jeffrey D. Brison

Published Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) Contents Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: American Philanthropy if Necessary but Not Necessarily American Philanthropy -- PART ONE: BUILDING FOUNDATIONS -- 1 The Business of Benevolence -- 2 The Early Years of American Philanthropy in Canada: Building Schools, Building Canada -- PART TWO: AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY, IMAGINED COMMUNITIES, AND THE STRUCTURING OF THE ARTS IN CANADA, 1927�1952 -- 3 American Philanthropy, Cultural Interpretation, and Imagined Communities in Canada 4 The Carnegie Corporation, Cultural Philanthropy, and a New Deal for the Arts in CanadaPART THREE: AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY AND CANADIAN LETTERS -- 5 American Philanthropy and Intellectual Development in Canada, 1930�1957 -- Conclusion: A New Foundation -- Epilogue: With Strings Attached -- Appendix: Foundation Grants in Canada, 1911�1950 -- Notes -- References -- Index Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Rockefeller Foundation -- History Carnegie Corporation of New York -- History SUBJECT Carnegie Corporation of New York fast Rockefeller Foundation fast Subject Arts -- Canada -- Endowments -- History -- 20th century Endowment of research -- Canada -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Philanthropy & Charity. Arts -- Endowments Civilization -- American influences Endowment of research Intellectual life SUBJECT Canada -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87001732 Canada -- Civilization -- American influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019290 Subject Canada Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773572690 0773572694 1282863355 9781282863354 9786612863356 6612863358

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