Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada

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Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada is written by Jeffrey David Brison and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0773528687 (ISBN 10) and 9780773528680 (ISBN 13).

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 fuelled by the free market with a Canadian one sustained by state support.