National, Transnational, and Hypernational Historiographies
New France Meets Early American History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23239201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allan Greer (0000-0003-1180-1041, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 695-724 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-3755 • E-ISSN: 1710-1093 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/can.2010.0031 |
| OpenAlex | W2031385433 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 29 |
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 sprawled across large parts of what was to become Canada and the United States, this article argues that national historiographic traditions continue to exert a powerful influence. Even as they pursue their subject across modern borders, Canadian, Quebec and United States historians frequently view New France through the lens of their own respective national traditions. The recent upsurge of interest in New France on the part of Early Americanists is a welcome development, but its impact is somewhat vitiated by a tendency to retain a United States-centric intellectual agenda while annexing new territories and cultures to what remains a national intellectual enterprise. The article concludes with the suggestion that New France specialists situate their work more in a wider hemispheric context, one that includes comparative perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Genealogy · Political science · European Political History Analysis · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · History, Culture, and Diplomacy
The sense of power
The Epic of Greater America
The Middle Ground
From Borderlands to Borders
The Social, Economic, and Political Significance of the Military Establishment in New France
A Belated Review of Harold Adams Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada
In Search of Empire
A Companion to Colonial America
Natives and Newcomers
Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal
Absolutely Atlantic
Atlantic History
The French Atlantic
The Idea of Atlantic History
Spatial Histories of Empire
Expansion and Exceptionalism in Early American History
The Atlantic in Global History
Native Christians
Bernard Bailyn's American Atlantic
Comparison and Beyond
L'évolution du régime seigneurial au Canada. Le cas de Montréal aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
Essays on New France
Seville et l'Atlantique (1504-1650)
The History of New France According to Francis Parkman
Elusive Empires
Le Partage des Subsistances au Canada sous le Regime Francais
Francis Parkman
Facing East from Indian Country
On Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2018 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |