Allan Greer

Biographic Data

ID188803
NAMEAllan Greer
GIVEN NAMESAllan
FAMILY NAMEGreer
SIGNATUREGREER A
AFFILIATIONSMcGill University
ORCID0000-0003-1180-1041
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Drinking on the Job

    Allan GreerARTICLELabour / Le Travail2025

    This article examines the role of alcohol, specifically rum, in labour relations in the early staples trades. In the 18th-century colonies that would later form Canada, labour was generally scarce and therefore expensive. Employers had to offer high wages as they struggled to recruit and retain workers, but because their enterprises were typically undercapitalized and vulnerable to market fluctuations, they could not afford to pay the salaries in…

  • Grenier, Benoît. Persistances seigneuriales. Histoire et mémoire de la seigneurie au Québec depuis son abolition (Québec, Septentrion, 2023), 264 p

    Open AccessAllan GreerARTICLERevue d histoire de l Amérique…2024

    Grenier, Benoît. Persistances seigneuriales. Histoire et mémoire de la seigneurie au Québec depuis son abolition (Québec, Septentrion, 2023), 264 p.. Un article de la revue Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française (Volume 77, numéro 4, printemps 2024, p. 1-141) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit

  • Owning Bodies, Owning Lands

    Allan GreerARTICLEHistorical Reflections/Réflexions…2024Cited by: 1

    This article presents a broad and comparative examination of property formation in the French and English plantation colonies of the Caribbean and the southern North American mainland. It considers the connections between claims to exclusive control over human beings and claims to portions of the earth's surface. In the two early modern empires, planters pushed consistently and successfully to remove social, legal, and ecological constraints that…

  • Democracy, Petitions, and Legitimation

    Open AccessAllan GreerARTICLESocial Science History2023References: 2

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  • Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500

    Open AccessAllan GreerARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2022

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  • Brian Gettler. Colonialism’s Currency

    Open AccessAllan GreerARTICLEThe American Historical Review2022

    Journal Article Brian Gettler. Colonialism’s Currency: Money, State, and First Nations in Canada, 1820–1950. Get access Brian Gettler. Colonialism’s Currency: Money, State, and First Nations in Canada, 1820–1950. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. Pp. xv, 301. Cloth $120.00, paper $37.95. Allan Greer Allan Greer McGill University Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Th…

  • Settler Colonialism and Beyond

    Allan GreerARTICLEJournal of the Canadian…2020

    The settler colonial approach has much to offer historians. However, when we consider the extended, 500-year history of the invasion of Indigenous North America, we encounter several sorts of colonialism; the settler variety stands out as a dominant force in some periods and regions, but it fades to insignificance in others. Two other versions of colonialism discussed in this article, “Imperial/Commercial Penetration” and “Extractivism,” seem par…

  • Communications

    Edward Cavanagh, Allan GreerARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2019

    Communications Edward Cavanagh and Allan Greer To the Editor: I refer to Allan Greer's "Settler Colonialism and Empire in Early America" in the William and Mary Quarterly (vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 383–90). Greer engages with a research article of mine, "Possession and Dispossession in Corporate New France, 1600–1663: Debunking a 'Juridical History' and Revisiting Terra Nullius."1 Its "results," he says, are "lamentable." I am, he claims, "emboldened b…

  • Property and Dispossession

    Allan GreerBOOKProperty and Dispossession2018

    Allan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico), and New England. By focusing on land, territory, and property, he deploys the concept of 'property formation' to consider the ways in which Europeans and their Euro-American descendants remade New World space as they laid claim to the continent's resources…

  • Peasant, Lord, and Merchant

    Allan GreerBOOKPeasant, Lord, and Merchant2017

  • L'économie et la Rébellion

    Open AccessAllan GreerARTICLEBulletin d histoire politique2017

    L’économie et la Rébellion : quelques perspectives de recherche. Un article de la revue Bulletin d'histoire politique (La Guerre de 1812 entre histoire, mémoire et perspectives) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit

  • Où est la Nouvelle-France1

    Open AccessCatherine Desbarats, Allan GreerARTICLERevue d histoire de l Amérique…2013Cited by: 2References: 2

    Nous posons une question apparemment anodine, « Où est la Nouvelle-France », afin d’explorer le rapport complexe entre souveraineté et territorialité qui prévalait aux XVI e , XVII e et XVIII e siècles, et ce, des deux côtés de l’Atlantique. De nos jours, les historiens imaginent souvent une Nouvelle-France bornée, sans pour autant être d’accord sur ses frontières, qui varient au gré des imaginaires nationaux imposés au passé. Les cartes et récit…

  • Commons and Enclosure in the Colonization of North America

    Allan GreerARTICLEThe American Historical Review2012References: 3

    WHAT WERE THE BROAD PROCESSES by which settlers of European stock created new forms of tenure and wrested control of lands from indigenous peoples, first in the Americas and later across wide stretches of Africa and Oceania?Anyone interested in this basic question about colonization and dispossession in an Atlantic world setting may be tempted to think in terms of a great "enclosure movement" that took shape first in England and Western Europe an…

  • National, Transnational, and Hypernational Historiographies

    Open AccessAllan GreerARTICLECanadian Historical Review2010

    Have transnational currents (Atlantic, borderlands, continentalist) in the history of colonial North America overcome the distortions long associated with a national framing of research on the early modern period? Have we left behind the tendency to read the political geography of the nineteenth century back into the history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Taking the example of writings on New France, a colonial formation that sprawl…

  • National, Transnational, and Hypernational Historiographies

    Open AccessAllan GreerARTICLECanadian Historical Review2010

    Have transnational currents (Atlantic, borderlands, continentalist) in the history of colonial North America overcome the distortions long associated with a national framing of research on the early modern period? Have we left behind the tendency to read the political geography of the nineteenth century back into the history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? Taking the example of writings on New France, a colonial formation that sprawl…

  • La république des hommes

    Open AccessAllan GreerARTICLERevue d histoire de l Amérique…2008Cited by: 1

    Cet article examine la dimension sexuelle de la Rébellion de 1837 dans le Bas-Canada et soutient que les femmes furent bien moins actives dans la lutte anti-gouvernementale qu'elles ne l'avaient été au XVIII e siècle dans diverses émeutes et autres mouvements de résistance. L'explication de ce changement est liée au procès de « masculinisation » de la politique qui a lieu un peu partout en Occident à la même époque. Comme le républicain type de l…

  • Gender, Religion, and American Encounters

    Open AccessAaron Spencer Fogleman, Allan Greer et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2008

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  • Cultures in conflict

    Warren R Hofstra, Fred Anderson et al.BOOKCultures in conflict2007

    Preface Chapter 1: Introduction: Old Forts, New Perspectives-Thoughts on the Seven Years' War and Its Significance Chapter 2: British Culture and the Changing Character of the Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Empire Chapter 3: Great Power Confrontation or Clash of Cultures? France's War against Britain and Its Antecedents Chapter 4: War, Diplomacy, and Culture: The Iroquois Experience in the Seven Years' War Chapter 5: Declaring Independence: The O…

  • The Exchange of Medical Knowledge between Natives and Jesuits in New France

    Allan GreerCHAPTERSaber de Los Jesuitas, Historias…2005

  • La rébellion de 1837-1838 au Bas Canada

    Allan Greer, Léon RobichaudARTICLECahiers de géographie du Québec2005Cited by: 2

    Cette étude vise une meilleure compréhension de la rébellion de 1837-1838 au Bas-Canada, de la nature même du conflit ainsi que de ses antécédents sociaux et économiques, à travers l'examen des composantes régionales de l'insurrection. Bien qu'ils aient été largement appuyés à travers l'ensemble de la province, les « patriotes » révolutionnaires étaient mieux ancrés dans l'Ouest du Bas-Canada. Cette région, correspondant au district de Montréal, …

  • Countryside Issues

    Allan GreerARTICLEParliamentary Affairs2003Cited by: 5

    This article explores the idea of countryside crisis in Britain. Countryside crisis is contrasted with more conventional single‐issue crises because of its multi‐stranded and complex character. Its main components are the contemporary problems of the farming sector, BSE/vCJD, foot‐and‐mouth disease, and wider issues in rural society such as social exclusion and the provision of vital services. Public opinion, the media and pressure groups all sha…

  • Habitants, marchands et seigneurs

    Allan GreerBOOKHabitants, marchands et seigneurs2000

    Au XVIIIe siècle, la société rurale canadienne-française était organisée selon un mode de production et d’occupation des terres où des cultivateurs autosuffisants redistribuaient une partie de leur richesse aux élites laïque et cléricale. L’intrusion du capital marchand au milieu du XVIIIe siècle, conjuguée à l’essor démographique et aux efforts de colonisation, a constitué un bouleversement immense dans cette société. En effet, à l’époque de la …

  • Lettre à la Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française

    Open AccessAllan GreerARTICLERevue d histoire de l Amérique…2000

    Lettre à la Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française. An article from journal Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Histoire des Premières Nations : nouvelles lectures et nouveaux problèmes), on Érudit

  • Colonial Saints

    Allan GreerARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2000Cited by: 1

    T| NHE French effort to Christianize the natives of seventeenthcentury North America coincided with one of the last great periods of European (especially French) hagiography.1 Thus, when Catholic France boasted of its missionary achievements, it spoke less of pagan nations converted to the True Faith than of saints vaulted into heaven. The Jesuit Fran~ois Du Creux chose these revealing terms in dedicating his Historia Canadensis to King Louis XIV…

  • Savage/Saint

    Allan GreerCHAPTERVingt Ans Apres, Habitants et…1998