Expert in: Communication
WIEN, Thomas
Professeur associé, Professeur honoraire
- Colonization and decolonization
- Communication
- Historiography
- Atlantic world
- New France
- Europe
- Asia
- 17th century
- North America
- Indigenous people
- Memory
- Collective memory
- Science
- Quebec
My research concerns all aspects of the history of New France, and its European ramifications. I am interested in the circulation of people, goods, knowledge and information between Native and French America and Europe (1660-1800). I am continuing my work on North American fur trade routes, in a hemispheric space extending from Native American lands eastward all the way to Asia.
A project on the circulation of knowledge considers natural history as a means of appropriation, for the moment through the work of Jean-François Gaultier (1708-1756), the King's physician in Quebec City and correspondent for the Académie royale des sciences.
I am also exploring the field of historiography and popular memory, and in particular the fate of the French Regime in Canada after the Conquest of 1759.